Posselt seems like overly "friendly" man.. Not sure about opinions of locals, i visited Cheb last summer and my grand-aunt showed me house where she lived in german family when she was in "forced labour" and "garmanisation" programm during tha war. The controversies between the Czechs and the German-speaking minority lingered on throughout the 1920s, and intensified in the 1930s. [clarification needed][6], In August, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sent Lord Runciman on a Mission to Czechoslovakia in order to see if he could obtain a settlement between the Czechoslovak government and the Germans in the Sudetenland. Also, the small town of Kravaře (German: Deutsch Krawarn) in the multiethnic Hlučín Region of Czech Silesia has an ethnic German majority (2006), including an ethnic German mayor. Four regional governmental units were established: The U.S. commission to the Paris Peace Conference issued a declaration which gave unanimous support for "unity of Czech lands". The Sudetenland was assigned to Germany between 1 October and 10 October 1938. The northern and western parts were reorganized as the Reichsgau Sudetenland, with the city of Reichenberg (present-day Liberec) established as its capital. - - Desperate to avert a crisis, Britain and France decided to mediate. New York, New York, USA: Enigma Books, 2008. Bohemia lost 70% of its population. Immediately after the Anschluß of Austria into the Third Reich in March 1938, Hitler made himself the advocate of ethnic Germans living in Czechoslovakia, triggering the "Sudeten Crisis". Jews and Czechs were not the only afflicted peoples; German socialists, communists and pacifists were widely persecuted as well. This article is about the historical region (1938–45). Note, what he reports is an expression of his opinion on the situation. After World War II in the summer of 1945 the Potsdam Conference decided that Sudeten Germans would have to leave Czechoslovakia (see Expulsion of Germans after World War II). The Germanic tribe of the Marcomanni dominated the entire core of the region in later centuries. and the decretes created by Benes, that allowed this crime are still active, which is a huge shame. In the 2001 census, approximately 40,000 people in the Czech Republic claimed German ethnicity. České země v éře první republiky (1918–1938). During the Great Depression the mostly mountainous regions populated by the German minority, together with other peripheral regions of Czechoslovakia, were hurt by the economic depression more than the interior of the country. Français; Reset. The four were: Transfer of the Sudetenland to the Reich; hold a plebiscite on the transfer of the Sudetenland to the Reich, organize a Four Power Conference on the matter, create a federal Czechoslovakia. Neuauflage, Herbig-Verlag, München, 2005. A full account of his report—including summaries of the conclusions of his meetings with the various parties—which he made in person to the Cabinet on his return to Britain is found in the Document CC 39(38). Also in 1749 Austrian Empire enforced German as the official language again. The word Sudetenland is a German compound of Land, meaning "country", and Sudeten, the name of the Sudeten Mountains, which run along the northern Czech border and Lower Silesia (now in Poland).