Die Beobachtung der Sudetendeutschen Landsmannschaft durch die tschechoslowakische Staatssicherheit (bis 1970)
The observation of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft by the Czechoslovak State Security (until 1970)

Summary/Abstract: The article provides an initial overview of the observation of the Sudeten German Homeland Association (Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft – SL) and its functionaries by the Czechoslovak State Security (Státní bezpečnost – StB) until the late 1960s. For this purpose, the collection and evaluation of information about the SL is considered and the goals pursued by the StB are being researched. Furthermore, some informants from the SL are introduced and their motives for working with the StB are given. It was found that the observation was relatively intensive and shows that the StB was well informed about what was happening in the SL in the second half of the 1950s and 1960s. The SL was perceived as a revanchist and hostile organization and the aim of the StB was to weaken it. This particularly applied to the nationalist wing around the Witiko-Bund, which dominated the SL during the period under study. To this end, as an active measure, they disclosed, for example, the Nazi past of leading SL functionaries.

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