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German politicians and the deported Sudeten Germans widely use the word "expulsion" for the events. However, political representatives in both the Czech Republic and Poland, from where millions of Germans had to leave after WW2, usually avoid this expression and rather use the word deportation .
Of the many post-war forced migrations, the largest was the expulsion of ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe, primarily from the territory of 1937 Czechoslovakia (which included the historically German-speaking area in the Sudeten mountains along the German-Czech-Polish border (Sudetenland)), and the territory that became post-war ...
Ethnic Germans in Saaz, Sudetenland, greet German soldiers with the Nazi salute, 1938. The same day, Hitler met with Chamberlain and demanded the swift takeover of the Sudetenland by Nazi Germany under threat of war. Czechoslovakia, Hitler claimed, was slaughtering the Sudeten Germans.
Today's Germans in the Czech republic form a small minority, remaining after the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans who had formed a majority in several areas of Czechoslovakia. The following municipalities had ethnic Germans at over 6% of the population in 2011: Horská Kvilda/Innergefild (Klatovy District) - 9.72%
The native German-speaking regions in 1930, within the borders of the current Czech Republic, which in the interwar period were referred to as the Sudetenland. The Sudetenland (/ s uː ˈ d eɪ t ən l æ n d / ⓘ soo-DAY-tən-land, German: [zuˈdeːtn̩ˌlant]; Czech and Slovak: Sudety) is a German name for the northern, southern, and western areas of former Czechoslovakia which were ...
The German Expellees or Heimatvertriebene (German: [ˈhaɪmaːt.fɐˌtʁiːbənə] ⓘ, "homeland expellees") are 12–16 million German citizens (regardless of ethnicity) and ethnic Germans (regardless of citizenship) who fled or were expelled after World War II from parts of Germany annexed by Poland and the Soviet Union and from other ...
German Bohemians (German: Deutschböhmen und Deutschmährer [ˈdɔʏtʃˌbøːmən] ⓘ; Czech: čeští Němci a moravští Němci, lit. 'German Bohemians and German Moravians'), later known as Sudeten Germans (German: Sudetendeutsche [zuˈdeːtn̩ˌdɔʏtʃə] ⓘ; Czech: sudetští Němci), were ethnic Germans living in the Czech lands of the Bohemian Crown, which later became an integral ...
Sudeten German uprising (Czech: sudetoněmecké povstání) [Note 3] in September 1938 was a rebellion of Sudeten Germans against Czechoslovak authorities in Sudetenland, [14] supported by an organized action orchestrated by Sudeten German Party (SdP) chaired by Konrad Henlein.