As a matter of fact, during that census a lot of czechs declared themselves
as germanophone, because they expected benefits from belonging to the 3.
Reich.
As far as I know this census was supervised by the Allied Forces, and this
solution was strongly supported by France.
Joseph H.
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> OK, thanks. But still on the basis of the lowest-level internal
> boundaries then, of course, because you can't speak of
"villages"
> with a certain percentage of Germanophones if you don't have village
> borders. Although with the forming of another linguistically defined
> border (Flanders-Wallonia) some municipal boundaries _were_ altered.
>
> I wonder how this census in 1938 was organised, who organised and
> supervised it, and how reliable the outcome was, but I suspect that
> the answer to that is pretty obvious...
>
> Peter S>
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Joseph Hornykewycz"
> <joseph.hornykewycz@c...> wrote:
> > >>> How did Hitler c.s. define the
> > border of the Sudetenland? On the base of existing internal Czech
> > borders perhaps?
> >
> >
> > No.
> > On the basis of the treaty of Munich 1938 Hitler made a census.
> Villages
> > with more than 50% german speaking population were declared as
> > Sudentendeutsch.
> > So the border was not defined on the base of existing internal Czech
> > borders, but on the base of a "language border".
> >
> > Joseph H.
> >
> >
> >
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> > Betreff: [BoundaryPoint] Re: CZDE ? -> post 1938
> > Datum: 18/06/04 20:49
> >
> >
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Smaardijk"
> > <smaardijk@y...> wrote:
> > > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Jesper Nielsen"
> > <jesniel@i...>
> > > wrote:
> > > > From 1938-1945 Sudetenland was part of Germany
> > > (http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Sudetenland), so the CS-DE pre
> > WW2
> > > had to be different to the post WW2 CS-WDE & CS-EDE.
> >
> > But this is another interesting subject, Jesper. How was the CZDE
> > border defined after Munich 1938? Of course, this border didn't last
> > long as an international border. After that, it served as the border
> > between the Reich and the protectorate of Bohemia & Moravia
during
> > the war (for what it's worth...). How did Hitler c.s. define the
> > border of the Sudetenland? On the base of existing internal Czech
> > borders perhaps?
> >
> > Peter S.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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