What the records say
- When
- 30 Sep 1938
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Coordinates
- 50.08° N, 13.86° E
- Government
- Germany
- Former government
- Czechoslovakia
- History
- Home to over three million ethnic Germans and a valuable industrial base, the Sudetenland was given to Germany during the Munich Conference. British Prime Mi…
- 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.
Munich Agreement
1938 cession of German-speaking Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany
The Munich Agreement was reached in Munich on 30 September 1938, by Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy. The agreement provided for the German annexation of part of the First Czechoslovak Republic called the Sudetenland, where three million people, mainly ethnic Germans, lived.
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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 (cession)”Correlates of War: free use with citation
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