Sudeten Germans in Austria after the First World War

Introduction For Austria, the end of the First World War did not just mean the end of the Habsburg monarchy and the transformation of the political system into a republican democracy. The defeat of the Central Powers in 1918 also involved the loss of territories and their respective populations that for centuries had belonged to an empire of which Vienna had been the administrative center. Not more than 6.5 out of ten million German-speaking people of the defunct Habsburg Empire lived within ..