[Scythian]

He sure does ...

Thus the plight of the German minority in Czechoslovakia was merely a pretext ... for cooking up a stew in a land he coveted, undermining it, confusing and misleading its friends and concealing his real purpose ... to destroy the Czechoslovak state and grab its territories .... The leaders of France and Great Britain did not grasp this. All through the spring and summer, indeed almost to the end, Prime Minister Chamberlain and Premier Daladier apparently sincerely believed, along with most of the rest of the world, that all Hitler wanted was justice for his kinsfolk in Czechoslovakia.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

An interesting historical note: the first German speaking university was in Czechoslovakia.

[Sherman Logan]

Thus the plight of the German minority in Czechoslovakia was merely a pretext

Of course Hitler didn't give a rat's hiney about the SD Germans.

That doesn't change the fact that you can make a darn good case that the SD Germans were screwed over thoroughly by the Versailles Treaty. They had been part of German (Holy Roman Empire) or at least multi-ethnic but dominated by Germans (Austrian and then Austro-Hungarian) empires for over a thousand years.

Suddenly they are removed from the German state and incorporated into a Slavic-dominated state purely for reasons of geography, not the self-determination proclaimed in Wilson's 14 Points.

IOW, the Czechs have a right to self-determination regardless of how it will affect the Viennese, but the SD Germans have no such right if it makes life difficult for the Czechs.

They had fully legitimate beefs.