Class Year
2016
Document Type
Student Research Paper
Date of Creation
Spring 2016
Department 1
History
Abstract
Following the end of World War I and the creation of the first Czechoslovak Republic, the Sudeten Germans sought to raise the awareness of Germans in Germany and Austria of their situation under Czechoslovak rule. In the period between 1929 and 1934, the public discourse in Germany altered, as Nazi control began to direct further concentration on the Sudeten Germans, away from broader discussion of their minority status to a German nationalistic perspective. The Nazis, however, were both manipulative and ambivalent in their awareness of the Sudeten Germans, treating them as an extension of the Nazi Party while also beyond their ability to help directly. By 1935 the Nazis had effectively controlled independent public narratives of Sudeten German awareness, as those discourses came to be controlled by the Nazi Party and its affiliates.
Copyright Note
This is the author's version of the work. This publication appears in Gettysburg College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.
Recommended Citation
Siegel, Jesse E., "A Coercive Courtship: German Awareness of and Responses to the Sudeten Germans, 1929-1934" (2016). Student Publications. 462.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/student_scholarship/462
Comments
History Senior Seminar paper for HIST 418: Nazism