Germans in the Czech Republic

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Germans in the Czech Republic form a minority of the residents in Bohemia, Moravia, and Czech Silesia. There are around 41,200 Germans in the country or around 0.4% of the total population. They are the descendants of the Sudeten Germans who remained behind in Czech Republic, despite the eviction orders. However, neither the Czech Government nor the majority of Germans there still see themselves as Sudeten Germans. After the Second World War, the Czech Germans were under great pressure to adapt to general Czech society; as a result, many members of this group, especially the younger generation, are now completely assimilated.

[edit] German newspapers in the Czech Republic

• Landeszeitung der Deutschen in Böhmen, Mähren und Schlesien
• Prager Zeitung

[edit] See also

• German minority in Poland

[edit] References

• The information in this article is based on a translation of its German equivalent.