biography
pronunciation:
[henliyn]
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| lived:
| (1898–1945)
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| biography:
| German politician, born near Liberec, N Czech Republic. He was the leader in the agitation on the eve of World War 2 leading in 1938 to Germany's seizure of Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia, and in 1939 to the institution of the German protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and the dissolution of Czechoslovakia. Gauleiter of Sudetenland (1938) and civil commissioner for Bohemia (1939–45), on Germany's subsequent defeat in the war he committed suicide when in US hands. |
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