THE SUDETENLAND COMPARED WITH OTHER COUNTRIES

THE SUDETENLAND COMPARED WITH STATES IN THE U.S.

By area (in sq. miles):
Maryland 10,577
SUDETENLAND 10,400
Vermont 9,609
New Hampshire 9,304
Massachusetts 8,257
New Jersey 7,836
Connecticut 5,009

By population (in millions) (1996 census)
Colorado 3,823
Sudeten Germans 3,8
South Carolina 3,699
Connecticut 3,274
Oklahoma 3,301
Oregon 3,204

POPULATION STATISTICS
IN THE AUSTRIAN EMPIRE AND IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA

In 1870, the population in the Austria-Hungarian Empire consisted of:

Germans 25.3 %
Hungarians 16.0 %
Czechs 12.6 %
Slovacs 5.8 %
Poles 6.9 %
Ruthenians 8.4 %
Slovenes 3.5 %
Croats and Serbs 8.2 %
Rumanians 7.5 %
Italians 1.7 %
Jews 3.9 %
Total population: 35.6 million.

? In 1910, the census in the newly-established Czech Republic showed
     the following percentages of Czech and German inhabitants:
                                                    CZECHS             GERMANS
     Bohemia                                 63,2 %                 36,8 %
     Moravia                                  72,4 %                 27,6 %
     Silesia                                     56,1 %                 43,9 %

? The census held in 1921 in Czechoslovakia revealed that the Czechs
     held a very narrow majority in this multi-ethnic country:
      Czechs                                                   6.7 million
      Sudeten Germans                                  3.1 million
      Slovaks                                                  2.0 million
      Hungarians                                            0.7 million
      Ruthenians                                             0.5 million
      Jews                                                       0.3 million
      Poles                                                      0.1 million.

There was a "revolutionary" Czechoslovak National Assembly of which not a single German, Hungarian, Ruthenian or Pole was a member, and in which only some hand-picked Slovaks were included. This Assembly enacted the Czechoslovak Constitution on February 19, 1920. The Constitution was never approved or ratified by a referendum or a parliament elected by all citizens. In the Constitution reference was made to a "Czechoslovak nation" which in fact did not exist: the other ethnic groups living the CSR were not even mentioned.

NOTE:
Between 1945-1950 a total of 2,921,000 German refugees and expellees
Came from Czechoslovakia.

A total of 250,000 ethnic Germans remained there after 1950.

Dead or missing in flight and expulsion: 267,000.