Upon the Wehrmacht 's entry into the Sudetenland , Henlein was appointed '' Reichskommissar '' and became a SS - '' Gruppenführer '' ( later an SS - '' Obergruppenführer '' ) . The SdP merged with Hitler 's NSDAP on 5 November 1938 . Henlein was responsible for organizing '' Kristallnacht '' pogrom in the Sudeteland on 9 November 1938 , having local activists smash Jewish homes and businesses . For the next year , Henlein was deeply involved in campaign for the " de-Jewification " of the Sudeten economy , confiscating businesses and properties owned by Jews , and he himself confiscated a villa in Reichenberg ( modern Liberec , Czech Republic ) that belonged to a Jewish businessman , which remained his home until 1945 . Henlein joined the Nazi Party in January 1939 and was appointed to the Reichstag as a deputy
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Konrad Henlein