Clash at Habersbirk
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The Clash at Habersbirk was the first armed confrontation between the Czechoslovak gendarmerie and the Sudeten Germans. It is sometimes marked as the first battle of the Second World War.
Memorial to the fallen Czechoslovak gendarmes in Habartov
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
Clash at Habersbirk
…The Clash at Habersbirk (Czech: Habartov) was the first armed confrontation between the Czechoslovak gendarmerie and the Sudeten Germans. It is sometimes marked as the first battle of the Second World War. In 1938, Habersbirk was inhabited by 3,135 people, of whom 207 were Czech. The…
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.