Series of lectures, University of West Bohemia, Faculty of Philosphy and Arts

The first Czechoslovakia Republic, which was established in 1918, obtained the difficult heritage from its predecessor-the Austrian monarchy-the different national structire of its inhabitans. Almost one third of them refused their new home and it was diffiucult for them to identify with it. There were Czech Moravian and Silesian Germans (later called Sudeten Germans), who became the inhabitans of a state, but refused this state existence and they also had to get used to the fact, that they are minority in this state. The aim of this lecture is to present basic facts about the german minority in between wars Czechoslovakia and to show certain aspects of their political life,