Sudeten Germans

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German Bohemians, later known as Sudeten Germans, are ethnic Germans living in the Czech lands of the Bohemian Crown, which later became an integral part of Czechoslovakia. Before 1945, over three million German Bohemians constituted about 23% of the population of the whole country and about 29.5% of the population of Bohemia and Moravia. Ethnic Germans migrated into the Kingdom of Bohemia, an electoral territory of the Holy Roman Empire, from the 11th century, mostly in the border region which was later called the Sudetenland, named after the Sudeten Mountains. The process of German expansion was known as Ostsiedlung ("Settling of the East"). The name "Sudeten Germans" was adopted during rising nationalism after the fall of Austria-Hungary in the aftermath of First World War. After the Munich Agreement (1938), the Sudetenland became part of Germany. After the Second World War, most of the German-speaking population (mostly Roman Catholic with relatively few Protestants) was expelled from...

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