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  Sudetenland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sudetenland (German: Sudetenland; Czech: Sudety, Polish: Sudety) was the name used in the first half of the 20th century for the regions inhabited mostly by Germans in the various places of Bohemia, Moravia, and parts of Silesia.
Sudetenland is a 20th century name and not a historical region and it is thus difficult to describe a distinct consistent history of the Sudetenland.
For centuries Bohemia and with it Sudetenland was part of the Austrian empire until the modern concepts of nation and nationalism gained power in the 19th century and conflicts between Czech nationalists and Germans emerged (for instance the Revolution of 1848).
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Sudetenland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sudetenland (German: Sudetenland; Czech: Sudety) was the name used from 1938–45 for the region inhabited mostly by Sudeten Germans (German: Sudetendeutsche, Czech: Sudetští Němci) in the various places of Bohemia, Moravia, and parts of Silesia.
Sudetenland was the name used before 1918 and in 1938–45 for the region inhabited mostly by Sudeten Germans (German: Sudetendeutsche) in the various places of Bohemia.
The Sudetenland was settled by the Germans from the 13th century onwards.
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 Sudetenland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sudetenland was the name used before 1918 and in 1938 –; 45 for the region inhabited mostly by SudetenGermans (German : Sudetendeutsche) in the variousplaces of Bohemia.
As Sudetenland is a 20th century name and not a historical region, it is difficultto describe some consistent history of the Sudetenland.
Sudetenland, just as Bohemia, was part of the Slavic state known as Great Moravia for some five years(888 / 890 to 894 / 895).
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 Sudetenland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sudetenland was the name used before 1918 and in 1938 – 45 for the region inhabited mostly by Sudeten Germans (German : Sudetendeutsche) in the various places of Bohemia.
Sudetenland just as Bohemia was part of the Slavic state known as Great Moravia for some five years (888 / 890 to 894 / 895).
The Sudetenland was settled by the from the 13th century onwards.
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 Sudetenland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
'''Sudetenland''' (''Sudety'' in Czech) was the name used in 1938–45 for the region inhabited mostly by Sudeten Germans (German: Sudetendeutsche, Czech: Sudetští N&283;mci) in the various places of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia.
Regions called later Sudetenland were part of the Slavic state known as Great Moravia for some five years (888/890 to 894/895).
The border regions of Bohemia and Moravia, called Sudetenland in the 20th century, were settled by the Germans from the 13th century onwards.
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 Sudetenland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
'''Sudetenland''' (-German; Czech: ''Sudety'') was the name used from 1938–45 for the region inhabited mostly by Sudeten Germans (German: ''Sudetendeutsche'', Czech: ''Sudetští Němci'') in the various places of Bohemia, Moravia, and parts of Silesia.
After the extinction of Přemyslids it was ruled by the Luxemburgs, later the Jagiellonians, until the Habsburg rulers inherited the land of Bohemia and it therefore was incorporated into the Austrian monarchy.
By the beginning of the 20th century around 3.5 million native German-speakers lived in the area called Sudetenland and it was only then that in the wake of growing nationalism the name Sudeten Germans emerged.
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 ::The Czech Crisis of 1938::
Also, the Sudetenland contained many valuable resources such as lignite, coal and the area was just about the country’s most vital defensive zone as the Sudetenland contained many border fortifications with Germany.
He also ordered Henlein and his followers to start to create trouble in the Sudetenland, therefore proving to the outside world that the Czech government was incapable of maintaining order in its own state.
The terrain from Germany to the Sudetenland was very steep and it was very likely that the Wehrmacht’s use of Blitzkrieg would have been of no value in such a hilly and wooded area.
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 Sudetenland (Reichsgau) - Wikipedia
Doch nach den Friedensverträgen musste das nachmalige Österreich zugunsten der Tschechoslowakei auf diese Gebietsteile verzichten.
Das Sudetenland teilte sich in die drei Regierungsbezirke Aussig (tschechisch Ústí nad Labem), Eger (tschechisch Cheb) und Troppau (tschechisch Opava) mit der entsprechenden Anzahl von Stadt- und Landkreisen.
Der Reichsgau Sudetenland bildete damit bis 1945 einen integralen Bestandteil des Deutschen Reiches.
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 Sudetenland - Bedeutung, Definition, Erklärung im netlexikon
In ethnischer Hinsicht war das "Sudetenland" seit 1918 die zusammenfassende Bezeichnung für das überwiegend durch deutschsprachige Böhmen, den späteren Sudetendeutschen, besiedelte Gebiet Böhmens und Mährens (heutiges Tschechien) und Mährisch-Schlesiens.
Auch der Begriff Sudetenland entstand erst in an der Wende vom 19.
Sudetenland in 144 Bildern von Erhard J. Knobloch (Gebundene Ausgabe) für EUR 12,95
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 Sudetenland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In ethnischer Hinsicht ist das "Sudetenland 1918 die zusammenfassende Bezeichnung für das geschlossene von Sudetendeutschen im heutigen Tschechien (damals Teile Böhmens Mährens und Schlesiens).
Der Versuch eines Anschlusses des Sudetenlandes die Republik Österreich wurde von den Siegermächten Ersten Weltkrieges verboten.
Mit dem Münchener Abkommen wurde das Sudetenland schließlich 1938 dem Deutschen Reich zugeschlagen wenig später (März 1939) das übrige Böhmen Mähren besetzte nachdem sich die Slowakei unabhängig hatte und damit die Tschechoslowakei nicht mehr
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 Sudetenland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
As Sudetenland is a 20th century name and not a historical region it is difficult to describe some history of the Sudetenland.
Hitler agreed to meet representatives from France the United Kingdom and Italy at the Munich Conference of September 29 out of which came the Munich Agreement which ceded the Sudetenland to Germany.
This unification with the Third Reich was followed by the flight and expulsion of the region's Czech population to parts of Czechoslovakia which was subsequently invaded annexed by Germany in March 1939.
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 Sudeten mountains - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ptolemy said that they were above the Gabreta Forest, which places them in the Sudetenland.
For example, the name was used before World War II to describe the German province of Sudetenland.
The ancient Sudetenland certainly did not have that meaning.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sudeten   (423 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Sudetenland
Sudetenland SUDETENLAND [Sudetenland] former region, Czechoslovakia: see under Sudetes.
In the summer of 1938, Chancellor Hitler of Germany began openly to support the demands of Germans living in the Sudetenland (see Sudetes) of Czechoslovakia for an improved status.
In September, Hitler demanded self-determination for the Sudetenland.
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 Munich Pact - MSN Encarta
The Munich Pact secured the acceptance by Britain and France of the demand by Adolf Hitler that the German-speaking Sudetenland, a region of Czechoslovakia, be ceded to Germany, which it bordered.
In a series of negotiations that began in August 1938, cession of the Sudetenland to Germany had already been agreed upon in principle by the participants in the pact.
Britain and France, devastated by World War I (1914-1918) and desperate to avoid further confrontation, had accepted Hitler's demands in return for his promise not to claim any other European territory.
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 Czechoslovakia and the Sudetenland Crisis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hitler used the position of the Sudetenland Germans within the Czech Republic to cause a dispute between Germany and Czechoslovakia.
He claimed the Czech Government was persecuting the Sudetenland Germans who wanted autonomy (Karlsbad Programme, April 1938).
Sudetenland to be occupied by German troops (between 1st and 10th October).
www.ers.north-ayrshire.gov.uk /History/CartoonCzechcrisis.htm   (227 words)

  
 Lecture 11: Hitler and World War Two
The opinion of British statesmen was that the Sudetenland Germans were being deprived of their right to self-determination.
Chamberlain, Hitler, Mussolini and Daladier, the Prime Minister of France, signed the MÜNICH PACT and agreed that all Czech troops in the Sudetenland would be replaced by German troops.
With the Sudetenland annexed, Hitler plotted to annihilate the independent existence of Czechoslovakia.
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 Sudetenland
The Sudetenland was part of Germany until 1806 and of the German Confederation between 1815 and 1866.
Until Adolf Hitler came to power most Sudenten Germans were content to remain in Czechoslovakia but in 1935 a Sudten-German Party, financed from within Nazi Germany, began to complain that the Czech-dominated government discriminated against them.
Desperate to avoid war, and anxious to avoid an alliance with Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union, Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier agreed that Germany could have the Sudetenland.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /GERsudetenland.htm   (1327 words)

  
 Czechoslovakia 1938: Preventing Violent Conflict: Teaching Guides: For The Classroom: Education: U.S. Institute of Peace
Czechoslovakia was a multinational state that had emerged from the defeat of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in World War I. It was beset with considerable nationalities problems; ethnic Czechs were barely 50% of the population, Germans 22%, Slovaks 16%, Hungarians 5% and others 7%.
The British and French governments, led by Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier respectively, initiated preventive diplomacy through a policy of appeasement to avoid conflict with Hitler by "remov[ing] the danger spots one by one." To appease Hitler, Chamberlain sent his friend, Lord Runciman on a fact-finding mission to Berlin as an unofficial mediator.
The Munich settlement awarded Hitler the prize of the immediate transfer of Sudetenland to Germany and, in return, Hitler agreed to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the remainder of Czechoslovakia.
www.usip.org /class/guides/preventing_czech.html   (1534 words)

  
 Palestinian refugees and the Sudetenland Germans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Sudetenland Germans and the Palestinian refugees have both failed in all attempts to receive compensation for the loss of property, life and their right to return to their homes.
However, the Sudetenland Germans have had the opportunity to rebuild their lives in the Federal Republic of Germany, whereas for the last 56 years Palestinian refugees and their descendents have had to squalor in refugee camps and prefabricated housing provided by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
The expulsion of millions of Germans from the Sudetenland - which included men, women, children, the old and the infirm - was cruel.
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 Sudetenland
Sudetenland – kaum ein Atlas vermag uns heute über dieses Land, über seine Lage und Ausdehnung und seine Sprachgrenzen genauen Aufschluss zu geben.
Als Sudetenland bezeichnet man das geschlossene Siedlungsgebiet der Deutschen in Böhmen, Mähren und dem ehemaligen Österreichisch-Schlesien.
Das Sudetenland wurde nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg gegen den Willen seiner deutschen Bevölkerung dem aus der zerschlagenen Donaumonarchie neu geschaffenen Vielvölkerstaat der Tschechoslowakei zugeschlagen.
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 Sudetenland
Before 1938, Britain had already given way to Hitler on a number of occasions, but it was the events of the Sudeten crisis which showed appeasement in action – trying to buy off Hitler by giving way to his demands.
It was clear he wanted to do the same in the Sudetenland.
At first Chamberlain refused, but then he decided that Czechoslovakia was not one of the ‘great issues’ which justified war, but just ‘a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing’.
www.johndclare.net /RoadtoWWII5.htm   (287 words)

  
 German boys clothes: regional differences -- Sudetenland
As a result of the Munich Conference, the Sudetenland was stripped from Czeceslovakia and annexed by NAZI Germany.
The Sudetenland is the area bounded by the Sudeten Mountains on the north the Erzgebirge Mountains on the northwest and the Bohemian Forest to the west.
The Sudetenland was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until 1919 when it was awarded to a new Czecheslovakian nation created as part of the Versailles Peace Treaty.
histclo.com /country/ger/reg/gr-sude.html   (1946 words)

  
 Encyclopedia
The pact, signed by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain for Great Britain, Premier Edouard Daladier for France, Adolf Hitler for Germany, and Benito Mussolini for Italy, merely determined the conditions under which the cession should be made.
In the summer of 1938, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler began to openly support the demands of Germans living in the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
In the summer of 1938, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler began to openly support the demands of German-speaking people living in the Sudetenland region of.
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