8h 23min, aug 15, 1938 y - The Sudetenland was populated by three and a half million Germans, former subjects of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This fufilled Hitler's foreign policy aim to create a "Greater Germany" by uniting all German people. It also meant he would have more manpower in an army.
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