What the records say
- When
- 13 Sep 1938
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 50.18° N, 12.55° E
- Description
- 1938 battle
Clash at Habersbirk
1938 armed confrontation in Czechoslovakia
The Clash at Habersbirk was the first armed confrontation between the Czechoslovak gendarmerie and the Sudeten Germans. It is sometimes marked as the first battle of the Second World War.
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