'German Bohemians and German Moravians'), later known as Sudeten Germans (German: Sudetendeutsche [zuˈdeːtn̩ˌdɔʏtʃə] ⓘ; Czech: sudetští Němci), were ethnic Germans living in the Czech lands of the Bohemian Crown, which later became an integral part of Czechoslovakia.

The Sudetenland (/ suːˈdeɪtənlænd / ⓘ soo-DAY-tən-land, German: [zuˈdeːtn̩ˌlant]; Czech and Slovak: Sudety) is a German name for the northern, southern, and western areas of former Czechoslovakia which were inhabited primarily by Sudeten Germans.

Sudetenland, sections of northern and western Bohemia and northern Moravia, in the vicinity of the Sudeten mountain ranges. The Sudetenland, which had a predominately German population, was incorporated into Czechoslovakia when that new nation’s frontiers were drawn in 1918–19.

Almost as soon as German troops occupied the Sudetenland in October 1938, Edvard Beneš and, later, the Czechoslovak Government-in-Exile, pursued a twofold policy: the restoration of Czechoslovakia to its pre-Munich boundaries, and the removal, through a combination of minor border rectifications and population transfer, of the state's German min...

2004年2月7日 · The Nazis' defeat left Sudeten Germans open to revenge attacks Clustered around the borders with Germany and Austria in the Sudetenland, they got along reasonably well with their Czech...

2024年5月25日 · The Sudetenland crisis of 1938 stands as a pivotal moment on the road to World War II, representing the apex of Western appeasement of Adolf Hitler‘s aggressive expansionism. The crisis centered on the Sudetenland, a border region of Czechoslovakia containing a substantial ethnic German population, which Hitler sought to annex into Nazi Germany.

2023年3月1日 · Hitler’s first move was to order the Sudeten Nazi Party to demand full autonomy for ethnic Germans from Czech leader Benes, knowing that these demands would be refused. He then circulated tales of Czech atrocities towards Sudeten Germans and emphasised their desire to once again be under German rule, in an effort to legitimise his annexation ...

This project will explore the creation of long-term emotional communities that were added to by Sudeten German expellees from Czechoslovakia, and the interaction between local population and newcomers.

2024年6月24日 · At the end of World War Two, the Czechoslovak government expelled up to three million German speakers, known as the Sudeten Germans. They were accused of being loyal to Nazi Germany and...

After the war ended in 1945, one of the most gruesome genocides took place that the history of mankind has ever seen: the expulsion and destruction of the Sudeten Germans.