"The misery of the Sudeten Germans is without end. They want to annihilate them. They are being oppressed in an inhuman and intolerable manner and treated in an undignified way."
"and when they are pursued like wild beasts for every expression of their national life [cheers]."
"And I say that if these tortured creatures cannot obtain rights and assistance by themselves, they can obtain both from us"
"the Reich would not tolerate any further continued oppression of 3,500,000 Germans,"
Considering the actual record of the Holocaust, where Hitler carried out just such acts, and worse, against Jews, this is very curious hyperbole for 1938.
And calculated. He was completely serious about being ready to attack Czechslovakia. He needed the German people to be 100% behind him (even if the generals weren't, as Jodl's diary entry I posted on the other thread shows). They would no doubt put their hearts into such a war if they believed they were saving their ethnic brothers from extermination rather than just moving the lines on the map of Europe around.