Sudetenland

The Sudetes ( ), also known as the Sudeten Mountains or Sudetic Mountains, is a geomorphological subprovince of the Bohemian Massif province in Central Europe, shared by the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany. They consist mainly of mountain ranges and are the highest part of the Bohemian Massif. They stretch from the Saxon capital of Dresden in the northwest across to the region of Lower Silesia in Poland and to the city of Ostrava in the Czech Republic in the east. Geographically the Sudetes are a Mittelgebirge with some characteristics typical of high mountains. Its plateaus and subtle summ

thumb|upright=1.2|The native German-speaking regions in 1930, within the borders of the current Czech Republic, which in the [[interwar period were referred to as the Sudetenland:

thumb|250px|Map of German dialects in Central Europe before 1938 Pan-Germanism ( or '), also occasionally known as Pan-Germanicism, is a pan-nationalist political idea. Pan-Germanism seeks to unify all ethnic Germans, German-speaking people, and possibly also non-German Germanic peoples – into a single nation-state known as Greater Germany'''.thumb|Distribution map - reconstruction attempt of Germanic settlement areas

exodus & deportation during and after the end of the Second World War from 1945 to 1950

German military presence in Czechoslovakia between 1939–1945

laws passed by the Czechoslovakian govornment-in-exile (1940-45)

ethnic Germans living in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown

political party

decoration of Nazi Germany awarded in the interwar period (1938–?)

thumb|300px|NSDAP administrative units, 1944 thumb|300px|Map of Nazi Germany with highlighted A '''''' (plural ) was an administrative subdivision created in a number of areas annexed by Nazi Germany between 1938 and 1945.

administrative division of Nazi Germany in annexed Czech territories

population expulsion 1945...1946

secret military police of the German Wehrmacht until the end of the Second World War

thumb|250px|Historical Egerland 1322–1806 and the region (') of Eger 1939–1945 The Egerland' (; ; Egerland German dialect: Eghalånd) is a historical region in the far north west of Bohemia in what is today the Czech Republic, at the border with Germany. It is named after the German name Eger'' for the town of Cheb and the main river Ohře.

military unit

pro-German rebellion against Czechoslovakian government

part of the German-Austrian Republic

Diplomatic contacts between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Czech Republic

highest football league in the Sudetenland

Weather stations in Poland

Province of the Republic of German-Austria after the disintegration of the Habsburg monarchy, 1918/19

football league

Volkssport is the German word for "People's Sport", and synonymous with Breitensport, defined as "sporting activities without the goal to compete". Volkssport consists today of Hiking, Swimming, Cycling and Skiing.

1938 battle

political party in Czechoslovakia

voluntary association

Brief diplomatic crisis in 1938

historically German region of Czechoslovakia

British Government initiative