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
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.
Sudetenland
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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
Sudeten Germans
…the Kingdom of Bohemia, an electoral territory of the Holy Roman Empire, from the 11th century, mostly in the border region which was later called the Sudetenland, named after the Sudeten Mountains. The process of German expansion was known as Ostsiedlung ("Settling of the East"). The name "Sudeten Germans" was…
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
Adolf Hitler drives through the crowd in Eger/Cheb on 3 October 1938