LEADER 03945cam a2200433Ia 4500001 119778 005 20240621201824.0 008 060713s2003 xx rb 000 0 eng d 028 52 3102632 |bUMI 035 (OCoLC)ocm70962938 035 119778 049 LHMA 040 LHM |beng |erda |cLHM 090 DB2198.7 |bC35 2003 100 1 Campbell, Michael Walsh. 245 12 A crisis of democracy : |bCzechoslovakia and the rise of Sudeten German nationalism, 1918-1938 / |cMichael Walsh Campbell. 264 1 [Place of publication not identified] : |b[publisher not identified], |c2003. 300 v, 356 pages 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 502 Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2003. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-353). 520 My project starts from the observation that before the founding of Czechoslovakia in 1918, Germans in the Czech lands had never thought of themselves as "Sudeten Germans," yet, by 1938, many of them would be willing to risk their homeland on behalf of this identity. This study investigates Sudeten German nationalism as a test case for reinterpreting the nationalization of ethnic minorities and the dynamic of irredenta conflicts. By focusing on the primary sculptors of this new national identity, my dissertation reveals how Bohemian Germans in inter-war Czechoslovakia came to think of themselves as "Sudeten Germans." My work retraces the evolution of Sudeten German nationalism: from its inception within the Bohemian Youth Movement in 1919; to its incubation within the German Turnverband (Gymnastics Society) in the 1920s; and ultimately to its mobilization and assimilation within the Sudeten German Party (SdP) in the 1930s. In each of these phases and organizations, an elite group of young nationalists, known as the Kameradschaftsbund (KB) played a critical role in sculpting this new nationalism and shaping the coming conflict between Nazi Germany and Czechoslovakia at Munich in 1938.Although the fate of Czechoslovakia was ultimately decided by the Great Powers, a longer term perspective on the Munich crisis reveals that Czechs and Sudeten Germans still played pivotal roles in determining their own fates in the course of the First Republic. This study argues that Sudeten German nationalism first arose as a reflexive response to the reversal of the nationality competition in 1918 and the state-building project of the Czechoslovak government in the 1920s, In the 1930s, the SdP leadership and the Czechoslovak government became locked in a cycle of provocation and repression, which rapidly mobilized the German minority and ultimately assimilated Sudeten German nationalism into a regional form of Reich German National Socialism. Therefore, this test case concludes that Sudeten German nationalism represented a dynamic new program of nationhood, which rapidly crystallized in response to the developments of the Czech/German nationality competition in the First Republic. 530 Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM. 533 Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services, |d2006. |e22 cm. 590 Dissertations and Theses 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 651 0 Czechoslovakia |xPolitics and government |y1918-1938. 651 0 Sudetenland (Czech Republic) |xEthnic relations. 650 0 Germans |zCzech Republic |zSudetenland |xHistory. 600 10 Henlein, Konrad, |d1898-1945. 650 0 Irredentism. 856 41 |uhttp://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=764821941&sid=22&Fmt=6&clientId=54617&RQT=309&VName=PQD |zElectronic version from ProQuest 956 41 |u http://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib119778/3102632.pdf |z Hosted by USHMM. 994 C0 |bLHM 852 0 |bstacks |hDB2198.7 |iC35 2003 852 |bwww 852 0 |bebook