and the freedom to decide for annexation to Nazi Germany. At this time the SdP had about 1.35 million members. Annexation In September 1938 the policy of SdP succeeded in the German annexation of Sudetenland according to the Munich Agreement (see: German occupation of Czechoslovakia). On 1 October Henlein was appointed of the incorporated territories, which became the . After a last convention at Aussig, the organization officially merged into the German Nazi Party at a festive ceremony in Reichenberg (Liberec) on 5 November 1938. However, as many Nazi officials like Reinhard Heydrich were suspicious of the SdP party members, they were not absorbed, but had to apply for admission to the Nazi Party. About 520,000 members were approved, among them Henlein himself who also joined the SS. He was officially appointed in 1939, an office he held until 1945, though largely losing power to Reich Protector Heydrich. As of October 1938 the SdP/KdP parliamentary club had 52 members from the Chamber of Deputies, and their joint Senate club had 26 members. On 30 October 1938 the parliamenary mandates of 46 deputies and 22 Senators of SdP and KdP were annulled. The SdP branches in areas that remained in Czechoslovakia after the Sudetenland annexation formed the German People's Group in Czecho-Slovakia (). Electoral results See also Germans in Czechoslovakia (1918–1938) Sudetendeutsches Freikorps Sudetenland Nazi Party Karl Hermann Frank References The German Dictatorship, The Origins, Structure, and Effects of National Socialism, Karl Dietrich Bracher, trans. by Jean Steinberg, Praeger Publishers, NY, 1970. pp 50–54. External links Sudetendeutsche Partei: Grundplanung O.A., 1938 Anti-Czech sentiment Banned far-right parties German diaspora political parties German nationalist political parties Interwar minority parties in Czechoslovakia Nazi parties Pan-Germanism Political parties established in 1933 Political parties disestablished in 1938 Sudetenland Czechoslovakia–Germany relations