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Originally Posted by Tim
The Sudeten Germans are still a separate, defined entity today? 
My understanding is that the Sudetan Germans lived in Silesia and parts of Moravia and Bohemia prior to 1945. I thought the entire population were violently expelled in 1945-47?
Yet this conversation seems to assume they are still a separate group. I thought they were resettled in western Germany? |
Yes, most of them in Bavaria, forming a huge part of the votership of the bavarian christian social Union (CSU), a party also represented in the german federal governement. The CSU´s (at least in the past) often anti-polish and anti-czech positions are partially explained by having many voters among the expellees that were for decades not willing to give up their dream off a regermanized Silesia and Bohemia.
But with the war generation gone and the next generations grown up in another Germany the Sudeten Germans are history, in every aspect of the word.