Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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It was one of the first territories Adolf Hitler annexed after coming to power: the Sudetenland, a border region in today’s Czechia with a large German-speaking population. But who were the Sudeten Germans — and what happened to them after World War II?

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