Sudetendeutsches Freikorps

Sudetendeutsches Freikorps


founded on September 17, 1938 by Konrád Henlein the day after the Sudetendeutsche Partei was banned in the Czechoslovak Republic. He followed up on the paramilitary units of the SdP Freiwilliger Schutzdienst, which were organized in the Czechoslovak Republic and which since 1937 caused unrest and clashes with Czechoslovak troops.


He participated in espionage against the Czechoslovak Republic and sabotage operations on the border during the escalation of the Munich crisis and the occupation of the Sudetenland after Munich in October 1938 and then the rest of the republic (March 15, 1939).
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according to the Nazi press, there were 40,000 Sudeten Germans, sober estimates by historians speaking of 10-15 thousand members. The members of this unit (Sudeten Germans and volunteers from Germany) underwent easy training in SA units and therefore their quality did not reach a high level. By September 1938, however, their sabotage operations in the Czechoslovak Republic had claimed 171 dead, 404 wounded and about 800 captured and abducted members (mostly SOS and Financial Guards) of the Czechoslovak Army in Germany ...


Links to some articles on clashes between the Sudetendeutsche Freikorps and Czechoslovak troops:


www.valka.cz


vojenstvi.kvalitne.cz


http://www.luzicke-hory.cz/hist03.html
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