Wilma Iggers reports in the Osnabrück (Germany) Graf-Stauffenberg-Gymnasium about Germans in Bohemia.
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“I was born and raised in Czechoslovakia.
I would like to get at least an approximate picture of the geographic location:
We have always said: right in the heart of Europe.
[Draws the map on the board:]
This is Bohemia and then Moravia and then Slovakia and then Carpathian Russia.
At that time Czechoslovakia had 14 million inhabitants and about 3 million of them were Germans. The Germans were mainly settled on the outskirts of Bohemia and bordered on Germany and Austria. In Moravia there were then scattered German settlements, but that was the large minority.
And I come from a small town around here at the foot of the Bohemian Forest. And the city was - so 3000 inhabitants - German-speaking with a minority of 10-15% Czechs.”