Sudeten Germans become an ethnic group

© Juan Carlos Ocaña Konrad Henlein, founder of the Sudeten Germans party and intimate of Adolf Hitler

On 19 February 1937 the Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia are accorded official recognition as an „ethnic group“. Although they have comprised the second largest population group since the multi-nation state was founded in 1919, they were denied official status up to now. Simultaneously the Sudeten Germans and Hitler’s government increase their pressure on the government in Prague: Now they demand the Sudetenland’s „annexation“ to the German Reich.