T | SHE post-war publication of captured German diplomatic documents has revealed that German diplomacy, until shortly before the Munich crisis of I938, was apprehensive of any openly aggressive policy towards Czechoslovakia, since it assessed Czech-German relations within Czechoslovakia in a way quite contrary to National Socialist propaganda slogans. This impression is reinforced by a study of the unpublished files of the Foreign Ministry in Berlin and of the pre-war German Legation in Prague. They confirm the fact that there was no really serious friction between Germany and Czechoslovakia before Hitler's accession to power and that any unavoidable small conflicts between these two countries, one of which had only come into being in I9I8, were but slightly concerned with the Sudeten German question. On the contrary, German diplomacy before I933 deliberately rejected any policy of German interference in Czechoslovak affairs, though it was frequently sought by certain Sudeten German circles, and supported as far as possible the active participation of German political parties in the Government of Czechoslovakia. In a secret report, dated as early as I9 April I9I9, Count Wedel, the German Ambassador in Vienna, definitely countered the belief that the Germans in Bohemia fervently desired to be attached to Germany after the break-up of the Hapsburg Monarchy:'