13 Facts About Sudetenland

Sudetenland is the historical German name for the northern, southern, and western areas of former Czechoslovakia which were inhabited primarily by Sudeten Germans.

Sudetenland had been since the 9th century an integral part of the Czech state both geographically and politically.

The Sudeten crisis of 1938 was provoked by the Pan-Germanist demands of Nazi Germany that the Sudetenland be annexed to Germany, which happened after the later Munich Agreement.

Areas later known as the Sudetenland never formed a single historical region, which makes it difficult to distinguish the history of the Sudetenland separately from that of Bohemia until the advent of nationalism in the 19th century.

Sudetenland added the Lusatias to the Lands of the Bohemian Crown, which then comprised large territories with a significant German population.

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Unlike the less developed regions, the Sudetenland had a high concentration of vulnerable export-dependent industries .

Sudetenland reported on the situation of the Sudeten Germans and gave details of four plans that had been proposed to deal with the crisis, each of which had points that, he reported, made it unacceptable to the other parties to the negotiations.

Sudetenland said that the transfer of these areas to Germany would almost certainly be a good thing.

Sudetenland added that the Czechoslovak army would certainly oppose that very strongly and that Benes had said that it would fight, rather than accept it.

Sudetenland was assigned to Germany between 1 and 10 October 1938.

Sudetenland was initially put under military administration, with General Wilhelm Keitel as military governor.

The Sudetenland consisted of three administrative districts : Eger, Aussig and Troppau .

That means the Sudetenland was one of the most pro-Nazi regions of Nazi Germany.