Czech-German Relations and the Politics of Central Europe

JÜRGEN TAMPKE is Associate Professor in European History and Politics at the University of New South Wales in Australia. He has published a number of books and articles, including Australia Willkommen: A History of the Germans in Australia and Ruthless Warfare: German Military Planning and Surveillance in the Australia-New Zealand Region Before the Great War.

• Acknowledgements Glossary of Geographical Terms Abbreviations Map of the Bohemian Lands Introduction The Lands of the Weceslav Crown Czechoslovakia The Reichsgau Sudetenland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia Expulsion and Forced Resettlement Expellee Politics In the Forefront Lest We Forget

Relations between Germany and Czechoslovakia were not only crucial for the development of Nazi foreign policy and the origins of the Second World War but continue to be of significance today in the context of the enlargement of the EU. This book provides both a timely insight into these issues and a scholarly history of ethnic relations between Germans and Czechs in Central Europe. - Dick Geary, Professor of Modern History, University of Nottingham'Jurgen Tampke's concise and thoughtful book provides the reader with a very good account of the fate of the Sudeten Germans and their role in the often fraught relations between Czechs and Germans'. - Tim Haughton, Nations and Nationalism, Volume 10, Part 3