STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 648, sig. 109-4/396

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- 27 economic crisis, which also shook the most well-founded states, would spare the Czechoslovaks, which was above all a foreign country.This crisis made itself very much felt, more violent in the German than in the Czech and Slovak territories, because the German territories - and this was the legacy of the Austrian Aera - were more industrial areas than the other territories and their spirits, especially from the export of luxury goods, glassware, porcelain, etc. and was dependent on the rosperitat of the world-renowned large spa resorts /arlsbad, Mariánské Lázně, etc./. Disorders interrupted this prosperity and the rule of Europe. At that time, when the Hitler regime took hold of the hake in Germany and, through intimidation and inconsistency, initiated an irredentist propaganda among the German-speaking population in the schechoslovakia, who were bitterly affected by the economic depression.Konrad Henlein , a hitherto unknown gymnastic teacher, became the leader of this movement, which constituted itself as Sudeten-German "artei".The fartei united 60 1 of the German stinmen in the Czechoslo wakei in the 1936 elections, not the Hitlerian program of separating the German territories from Czechoslovakia;Henlein's public "rogremm referred to the economic autonomy of one of the great Renleins, otherwise he had to be