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As Sudetenland is a 20th century name and not a historical region, it is difficult to describe some consistent history of the Sudetenland. The history of Sudetenland followed the history of Bohemia. Small parts of Sudetenland lie in the historical region of Silesia.
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Bohemia become the CzechCzechs are a western Slavic people of Central Europe, living in the Czech Republic, but also in small parts of Slovakia and Hungary. They speak the Czech language. They are descendants of ancient Celtic, Thracian and Slavic tribes who inhabited the region Kingdom, ruled by dynasty of PremyslThis article is about an ancient Czech ruler. For other meanings, see Przemysl. The Czechs name Premysl (or Przemysl as the reputed ancestor of the line of dukes and kings which ruled in the Czech lands from 873 or earlier until the murder of Wenceslaus I. The kingdom became a fief of the Holy Roman EmpireThe Holy Roman Empire ( German: Heiliges Romisches Reich was a political conglomeration of lands in western and central Europe in the Middle Ages. Emerging from the eastern part of the Frankish realm after its division in the Treaty of Verdun ( 843), it l. After the extinction of Premyslides it was ruled by the Luxemburgs, later the Jagiellonians, until later Habsburg imperial rulers inherited the land of Bohemia. The Sudetenland was settled by the Germans from the 13th century onwards.
After the abolition of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, lands of Czech Kingdom became a part of the Habsburg Empire (later Austria-Hungary).
As the modern concepts of nation and nationalism gained power in the 19th century, divisions between Czechs and Germans emerged.
By the Versailles Treaty, the land of Bohemia became part of the new state of Czechoslovakia. The controversies between the Czechs and the Germans intensified in the 1930s and the German minority (which was actually a majority in the Sudetenland), led by the Nazi politician Konrad Henlein, was gradually escalating its demands. See Germans in Czechoslovakia (1918-1938).
Conflict over the Sudetenland began immediately after the Anschluss (March 1938). This led to the Czechoslovak Crisis. The German Nazis — together with their Sudeten German allies – claimed throughout the year that the Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia were being mistreated and oppressed by the Czech government, and demanded incorporation of the region into the Third Reich. The Western powers urged the Czechs to comply with Germany in order to prevent a general war. Neville Chamberlain met with Adolf Hitler in Berchtesgaden, on September 15, and agreed to the cession of the Sudetenland, as did Edouard Daladier and Georges Bonnet three days later. The Czechs themselves were not included in these discussions. Chamberlain met Hitler in Godesberg on September 22 to confirm the agreements. The discussions here fell through, however, as Hitler made new demands that Chamberlain was not able to defend in Parliament.
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. The Sudetenland would be occupied between October 1 and October 10. This unification with the Third Reich was followed by the flight and forcible expulsion of the region's Czech population to remaining parts of Czechoslovakia, which was subsequently invaded and annexed by Germany in March 1939.
After World War II those Sudeten Germans, who were not able to prove they were anti-Nazi, were expelled from the country, as ordered by the Potsdam conference in 1945. The property of these former citizens of Czechoslovakia was confiscated according to the Benes decrees. Expulsion and forced resettlement was associated with many excesses and murders.
There are various organisations which represent Sudeten people, most notably the Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft and the Munich-based Verband der Sudetendeutschen (Sudeten-German Federation).