Shortly after the annexation , the Jews living in the Sudetenland were persecuted widely . Only a few weeks afterwards , the Kristallnacht occurred . As elsewhere in Germany , many synagogues were set on fire and numerous leading Jews were sent to concentration camps . In later years , the Nazis transported up to 300,000 Czech and Slovak Jews to concentration camps , where many of them died or were killed . Jews and Czechs were not the only afflicted peoples ; German socialists , communists and pacifists were widely persecuted as well . Some of the German socialists fled the Sudetenland via Prague and London to other countries . The Gleichschaltung would permanently alter the community in the Sudetenland
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