Bringing textbook history to life in Sudetenland
SUDETENLAND, CZECH REPUBLIC — I remember sitting at my cramped desk early one morning in Copenhagen attempting to wrap my head around the concept of the Sudetenland Transfers. Someone from the back of the class compared the region to fat being trimmed off a piece of pork, metaphorically perfect in its historical brutality. I knew the numbers, the outline on a map and I could rattle off a basic description of what happened. In any other course setting, I would have been done, ready to move on to a new topic. Instead, I boarded a plane for the Czech Republic and a few days later found myself in the Sudetenland region surrounding the country.