Sudetenland facts

The Sudetenland was a mountainous area of Czechoslovakia. Germany took this land from Czechoslovakia in 1938. This helped to start World War II.

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  • Sudetendeutsche

    The native German-speaking regions, within the borders of the current Czech Republic, which in the interwar period were referred to as the Sudetenland.

  • Teroristická akce sudetoněmeckého Freikorpsu

    A Sudeten German Voluntary Force ("Sudetendeutsches Freikorps" unit in 1938

  • Germans in western Austro-Hungaria

    Ethnic distribution in Austria-Hungary in 1911: regions with a German majority are depicted in pink, those with Czech majorities in blue.

  • Konrad Henlein v Karlových Varech 1937

    Konrad Henlein speaking in Carlsbad, 1937

  • Teplitz Schonau, Czechoslovakia, A synagogue, the morning after Kristallnacht.

    Vandalized synagogue in Teplice, the morning after Kristallnacht, 1938

  • Volební fraška v Sudetech

    Election Ballot, Reichsgau Sudetenland, December 1938

  • Bundesarchiv Bild 121-0008, Sudetenland, Besuch Wilhelm Frick (cropped Konrad Henlein)

    Sudetenland was administered by Konrad Henlein for the duration of the war

  • Sudetenland Reichsgau 1944

    Administrative Divisions of Reichsgau Sudetenland

  • Vertreibung

    The expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia as the result of the end of World War II

  • Vertreibung 1938

    From the territory occupied by the Third Reich, 160,000 to 170,000 Czech-speaking inhabitants of the former Czechs lands were forced to leave or were expelled


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