Sví v cizí zemi – česká menšina v Deutschböhmen a Sudetenlandu na podzim 1918
Distinct in a Foreign Country – Czech Minority in Deutschböhmen and Sudetenland in the Autumn of 1918

Summary/Abstract: The article describes the relationship between the offices in the German autonomous areas of Deutscheböhmen and Sudetenland, which took over power in part of the Czech lands borderlands in the autumn of 1918, including the local Czech inhabitants. The introduction is devoted to the difficulties associated with the objective definition of the size of the local Czech minority. It continues with the activation of the minority at the end of the war which was related to the increase of national tension and attempts to set its activity in the framework of security calls the German autonomies had to face. The Czechs in Deutschböhmen and Sudetenland not only represented a security problem, but they also complicated their activities by establishing parallel political and administration bodies as well as by working for the administrative and security apparatus that the German autonomy took over from the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. The final part of the text presents an attempt to reconstruct the minority politics of the German autonomies. It concludes that having been motivated by the efforts to pacify the troubled situation, these bodies manifested a substantial extent of national toleration. But on the other hand, they could not prevent some excesses that further complicated the relationship of the two nations.

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