Svitavy
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Svitavy is a town in Svitavy District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 16,000 inhabitants. The town is located on the Svitava River in the Svitavy Uplands.
The square Náměstí Míru
Coat of arms
Last remnant of the town fortification
Ottendorfer House with the Esperanto Museum
Reichsgau Sudetenland
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The Reichsgau Sudetenland was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1939 to 1945. It comprised the northern part of the Sudetenland territory, which was annexed from Czechoslovakia according
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…century the town saw tensions between ethnic Czechs and Germans. In October 1938, the town was annexed by Nazi Germany and administered as part of the Reichsgau Sudetenland. After the end of World War II in 1945, the German population was expelled as a result of the Beneš decrees. After 1945, the town was resettled by…
Ethnic Germans in Komotau, Sudetenland, greet German soldiers with the Nazi salute, 1938
Karlsbad in 1941