Nationalsozialistische Judenverfolgung im Reichsgau Sudetenland 1938-1945
Description:... Traces the fortunes of the Deutsche nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei, the Sudeten German party that was closely allied to the NSDAP in Germany and partly inspired its ideology. It was radically anti-Slavic, antisemitic, and anti-democratic. During the 1920s it remained relatively small, but in 1929 it won 204,000 votes, and between 1930-33 its membership doubled. Antisemitism was also promoted by organizations such as the Deutsche Turnverband, and especially by the students at the German University in Prague. In 1933 the DNSAP was replaced by the Sudetendeutsche Partei under Konrad Henlein, who had led the Turnverband. This party presented itself as moderate and supportive of peaceful coexistence among all ethnic groups, even while adhering to a "Christian and German Weltanschauung"; but its press and local membership incited to boycott and violence against Czechs and Jews. After the Anschluss in Austria, Sudeten Germans hoped that they too would "return home to the Reich"; the party openly proclaimed this aim and began to follow instructions from Hitler to stage anti-Czech and antisemitic riots. Many Jews fled the Sudetenland to the Czech interior or abroad; the flight peaked after the German takeover and the accompanying terrorism. Describes Nazi anti-Jewish measures, the deportations to Theresienstadt and other camps, and the labor camps and the satellites of Gross-Rosen and Flossenbürg. Pp. 301-482 deal with the Aryanization of Jewish property. Pp. 580-640 contain tables, including (p. 611-634) lists compiled by the Dresdner Bank in August 1939 of Jewish concerns in the process of Aryanization.
Show description