Sudeteland Invasion by Nazi Germany

At the outset of WWI, the Austrian-Hungarian empire was dismantled and several new countries were created. One of them was Czechoslovakia.

Historically, the areas of the Sudeten mountains were known as the provinces of Bohemia and Moravia. The outer part of that "Czech" territory had been populated by German speaking people. They represented 25% of a population of about 12 million people, so three million German speaking people...

Even though the Sudeteland was suffering from the economic crisis as everywhere else at the moment, it was a very industrialized area. In war time, geography and demography are two important elements to consider. Hitler wanted to rebuild the German Empire that had been dismantled...