What the records say
- When
- 16 Mar 1939
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Coordinates
- 49.62° N, 15.49° E
- Government
- Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
- Former government
- Czecho-Slovakia
- History
- On March 16, 1939, German soldiers marched into Prague, and the Czech lands were occupied, forming the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Hitler sought the industrial regions of the Czech lands, especially for its arms industry. The Protectore was init
- Source map
- Sudentenland-Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia-Slovakia-Carpathian Ukraine · 1:1,000,000 · Freytag and Berndt, Vienna
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945)
Period of Czechoslovak history
The military occupation of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany began with the German annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, continued with the creation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and by the end of 1944 extended to all parts of Czechoslovakia.
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2 sources record it
- European Borders, World War II (1938–1945)Stanford Spatial History Lab (M. De Groot)Stanford Spatial History Lab: scholarly reuse, no commercial use
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War Project · names it “Czechoslovakia → Germany (annexation)”Correlates of War: free use with citation
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