The military occupation of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany began with the German annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, continued with the creation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and by th
From left to right: Chamberlain, Daladier, Hitler, Mussolini, and Ciano pictured before signing the Munich Agreement, which gave the Sudetenland to Germany
Edvard Beneš, the second President of Czechoslovakia and leader of the Czechoslovak government-in-exile
Ethnic Germans in Saaz, Sudetenland, greet German soldiers with the Nazi salute, 1938.
Hácha, Hitler and Göring meeting in Berlin, 14/15 March 1939
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The Sudetenland is the historical German name for the northern, southern, and western areas of former Czechoslovakia which were inhabited primarily by Sudeten Germans. These German speakers had predom
Occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945)
…The military occupation of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany began with the German annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, continued with the creation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and by the end of 1944 extended to all parts of Czechoslovakia. Following…
Czech inscriptions smeared by Sudeten German activists, March 1938, Teplice
Ethnic Germans in the city of Eger (now Cheb) greeting Hitler with the Nazi salute after he crossed the border into the Czechoslovak Sudetenland on 3 October 1938
Volunteers of the Sudeten German Free Corps (German: Sudetendeutsches Freikorps) receiving refreshments from the local population in the city of Eger/Cheb)
Adolf Hitler drives through the crowd in Eger/Cheb on 3 October 1938