The Archive · 1938

Possibility It Henlein Is Arrested by Czechs

Berchtesgaden, Sept, 18,'

Herr Adolf Hitler said here today that the "Czechoslovakia trouble inst be ended once and tiiist be ended now, ft is poisoning the whole European. organization," hi told Mr. Ward Price of the London "Daily Mail" in an exclusive interview.

"While Czech oppression of the German minority keeps Europe at fever heat, I must, be ready for whatever comes.... The, creation of heterogenous Czechoslovak Republic after the Great War was lunacy. To set an intellectually inferior handful of Czechs up to rule minorities belonging to races like Germans and Hungarians, with thousands of years of culture behind them, was a work of folly and 4 ignorance "If Herr Konrad Hehlein is arrested by the Czechs, I myself shall become the leader of the Sudeten Germans and I should be glad see how long after that the Czech President, Dr. Eduard Benes, would be able to issue decrees, I hope he wouldn't issue a warrant for my arrest,""—United Press,

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