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Oliver Popplewell on Munich, with Some Omissions
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May
2023
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By Williamson Murray
Popplewell explains Czechoslovakia’s great problem: the intermixing of nationalities during the old Hapsburg Empire. The collapse of the ramshackle Empire in 1918 caused the Versailles Peace Conference to reorganize an area where Czechs, Slovaks, Hungarians, Poles, Germans, Jews, and Romani were intermixed. The difficulty for Czechoslovakia was that Sudeten Germans were settled heavily in the mountainous areas surrounding Bohemia and Moravia.