At the time of the Sudetenland crisis in 1938, Goebbels was well aware that the great majority of Germans did not want a war, and used every propaganda resource at his disposal to overcome what he called this " war psychosis ," by whipping up sympathy for the Sudeten Germans and hatred of the Czechs.

The Germans in Czechoslovakia, known as Sudeten Germans but also Carpathian Germans, were expelled according to the Beneš decrees — from the Sudetenland region, where they formed a majority, from linguistic enclaves in central Bohemia and Moravia, as well as from the city of Prague.

The term Sudetenland was used in a wider sense when on 1 October 1933 Konrad Henlein founded the Sudeten German Party and in Nazi German parlance Sudetendeutsche ( Sudeten Germans ) referred to all indigenous ethnic Germans in Czechoslovakia.

In 1955 Bayreuth took on sponsorship for displaced Sudeten Germans from the town of Franzensbad in Okres Cheb.

Ethnic German inhabitants of provinces of the dissolved Austro-Hungarian Empire, such as Sudeten Germans, Danube Swabians and Transylvanian Saxons, became citizens of newly-established Slavic or Magyar nation-states.

In 1943, Czechoslovakian leader in exile Edvard Beneš agreed to Stalin's demands for unconditional agreement with Soviet foreign policy, including the expulsion of over one million Sudeten ethnic Germans identified as " rich people " and ethnic Hungarians, directed by the Beneš decrees.

After answering a list of questions by the Soviet NKVD, Beneš pleased Moscow with his plans to deport two million ethnic Sudeten Germans and 400, 000 to 600, 000 Hungarian, and to build a strong army that would closely coordinate with the Red Army.

The British appointed Lord Runciman, the former Liberal cabinet minister, who arrived in Prague on 3 August with instructions to persuade Beneš to agree to a plan acceptable to the Sudeten Germans.

During August the German press was full of stories alleging Czech atrocities against Sudeten Germans, with the intention of forcing the Western Powers into putting pressure on the Czech to make concessions.

* In the Brünn death march of Summer 1945, Sudeten Germans were expelled by Czechs from Sudetenland to Austria, killing at least 800 in the process.

The Sudeten Crisis, which began not long after Reynaud was named Minister of Justice, again revealed the divide between Reynaud and the rest of the Alliance Démocratique ; Reynaud adamantly opposed abandoning the Czechs to the Germans, while Flandin felt that allowing Germany to expand eastward would inevitably lead to a conflict with the Soviets that would weaken both.

The German-speaking population in the interwar Czechoslovakian Republic, 23. 3 % of the population at the 1921 census, is usually reduced to the Sudeten Germans, but actually there were linguistic enclaves elsewhere in Czechoslovakia, and among the German-speaking urban dwellers there were " ethnic Germans " and / or Austrians as well as German-speaking Jews.

The denominations Carpathian Germans and Sudeten Germans were not traditionally in use among the populations so labelled, they are historically quite recent.

The British appointed Lord Runciman and instructed him to persuade Beneš to agree to a plan acceptable to the Sudeten Germans.

The Sudeten Germans broke off negotiations on 13 September, after which violence and disruption ensued.

The Czechs, Hitler claimed, were slaughtering the Sudeten Germans.

The Sudeten Crisis highlighted German unprepardness to conduct a strategic air war ( although the British and French were in a much weaker position ), and Hitler ordered the Luftwaffe be expanded by five times.

Chamberlain believed that Sudeten German grievances were justified and that Hitler's intentions were limited.

In September 1938, during the Sudeten Crisis, when war appeared imminent, the Bakerloo and Northern Line tunnels at Embankment were temporarily sealed with concrete to protect against flooding through bombing.

Chamberlain believed that Sudeten German grievances were justified and that Hitler's intentions were limited.

Because of their knowledge of the Czech language, many Sudeten Germans were employed in the administration of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and in Nazi organizations ( Gestapo, etc.

Sudeten Germans were subjected to restrictive measures and conscripted for compulsory labor.

The Sudeten Germans that made up the majority of the population in border regions were forcibly expelled after World War II, and Carpatho-Ukraine ( poor and overwhelmingly Ukrainian and Hungarian ) had been ceded to the Soviet Union following World War II.

After World War II, estates of the princely ( Choceň ) branch of the family were confiscated under the so-called Beneš decrees, as late Prince Ulrich ( 1893 – 1938 ) was reproached with his declared German nationality and active collaboration with the Sudeten German Party.

Local hostilities were engendered, however, by policies intended to protect the security of the Czechoslovak state: border forestland, considered by some to be the most ancient Sudeten German national territory, was expropriated for security reasons, and Czech soldiers, policemen and bureaucrats were stationed in areas inhabited only by Germans.

There were also economic tensions, as Sudeten Germans suffered more during the Great Depression, because they were more dependent on foreign trade and economic conditions in Germany.

Concessions offered by the Czechoslovak government, including the transfer of Sudeten German officials to Sudeten German areas and possible participation of the SdP in the cabinet, were rejected.

Two such roles were Dorothea Sturm, the doomed heroine of the antisemitic historical melodrama Jud Süß, who commits suicide by drowning after being coerced into having sex with the villain and Anna in Die goldene Stadt, a Sudeten German whose desire for the city ( in defiance of blood and soil ) and whose seduction by a Czech result in her drowning suicide.

They were called Sudeten Germans since the beginning of the 20th century ; the name was derived from the Sudeten ( Czech: Sudety ) Mountains.

Right-wing political groups like the German National Socialist Worker's Party referred to themselves as Volksdeutsche and began to urge for a unification with Germany, their efforts laid the foundation for the rise of the Sudeten German Party under Konrad Henlein after 1933.

The exiled government of Czechoslovakia, under President Edvard Beneš, was under pressure from British intelligence, as there had been very little visible resistance since the occupation of the Sudeten regions of the country in 1938 ( occupation of the whole country began in 1939 ).

The Polish side argued that Poles in Zaolzie deserved the same ethnic rights and freedom as the Sudeten Germans under the Munich Agreement.

On 19 April 1935 the SHF was renamed Sudeten German Party ( Sudetendeutsche Partei, SdP ) under pressure from the Czechoslovak government.

The Sudeten German Party (, SdP, ) was created by Konrad Henlein under the name Sudetendeutsche Heimatfront (" Front of Sudeten German Homeland ") on October 1, 1933, some months after the state of Czechoslovakia had outlawed the German National Socialist Workers ' Party ( Deutsche Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpatei, DNSAP ).

On 6 March 1928, Schindler married Emilie Pelzl ( 1907 – 2001 ), daughter of a wealthy Sudeten German farmer from Maletein.

Not until May 1938 did he begin " consistently to withhold his support from the National Government's conduct of foreign policy in the division lobbies of the House of Commons ", and he seems " to have been convinced by the Sudeten German leader, Henlein, in the spring of 1938, that a satisfactory settlement could be reached if Britain managed to persuade the Czech government to make concessions to the German minority.

In 1954, the town of Amberg in Germany adopted the expelled Sudeten German population from Cheb and the surrounding districts.

During the latter years of the war, Beneš worked toward resolving the German minority problem and received consent from the Allies for a solution based on a postwar transfer of the Sudeten German population.

* Oskar Schindler ( 1908 – 1974 ), Sudeten German businessman who saved his Jewish workers from the Holocaust, subject of the film Schindler's List

In consequence, most Sudeten German parties changed from negativism to activism, and a number of Sudeten Germans accepted cabinet posts.

* Documents on the Expulsion of the Sudeten Germans from Jägerndorf

Oskar Schindler, a Sudeten German industrialist, created the now famous list of Schindler's Jews by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories, providing them immunity from the Nazis.

An extreme advocate of the incorporation of the Sudetenland into Germany, Frank joined the Deutsche Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei ( Sudeten German National Socialist Party or DNSAP ) in 1919 and set up a book store from which he distributed Nazi propaganda.

Bell was also one of the first British bishops to protest against the inhumane treatment of approximately 14 million Silesian, Pomeranian, East Prussian and Sudeten Germans expelled from their homes in Eastern Europe.

The Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft () is an organization representing Sudeten German refugees from the Sudetenland.

This would later lead to the expulsion of three million Sudeten Germans from their homes of 800 years.

:" The Sudeten Germans ... had shown themselves to be a dangerous fifth column without any loyalty to the state [...] the Czech government thus expelled them from its land.

* No comparison-op-ed from the Prague Post criticising " pseudo-scholars " who allegedly regard the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans as morally equivalent to the Holocaust.