How did hitler take over the sudetenland?
To amplify the earlier, correct answers, it was in 1938, and Hitler had read the British and French leaders (Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier) very well, in that they would do anything to avoid another war. Using the abobe-mentioned ethnicity of the Sudeten population as an excuse, Hitler threatened war if Germany was not given the Sudetenland. France and Britain told the Czechs that they would not honor their alliance with Czechoslovakia unless Hitler was given this territory. This was truly no chioice at all, because al the Czech natural defenses and fixed fortifications were in the Sudetenland, and even with the Sudeten defenses, Czechoslovakia could not have repelled a German invasion without allies. Everyone pretty much knew that the loss of the Sudetenland was the death of Czechoslovakia, but Britain and France did not care.
