Šumperk
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Šumperk is a town in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 24,000 inhabitants. The town is located in the Hanušovice Highlands on the stream Bratrušovský potok.
Aerial view of Šumperk
Šumperk Castle, today a secondary school
Remains of the town walls
A View of Šumperk, painting by N. Malizius from 1864
Sudeten Germans
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German Bohemians, later known as Sudeten Germans, are ethnic Germans living in the Czech lands of the Bohemian Crown, which later became an integral part of Czechoslovakia. Before 1945, over three mil
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…were invited to build villas and other buildings. For its approach to the appearance of Vienna, Šumperk was sometimes nicknamed "Little Vienna". Sudeten Germans on the Imperial Austro-Hungarian Council declared sovereignty for German-inhabited Moravia, including Šumperk, under the name Sudetenland of the Republic…
Der Ackermann aus Böhmen, 15th-century manuscript, Heidelberg University
German dialects with overlaps to Sudeten
Sudeten German Freikorps
Neville Chamberlain (left) and Adolf Hitler leave the Bad Godesberg meeting on 23 September 1938.