German South Moravia

It includes parts of southern and western Moravia once largely populated by ethnic Germans.

[1] With the imminent collapse of Habsburg Austria-Hungary at the end of the war, areas of the Czech-majority Moravia with an ethnic German majority began to take actions to avoid joining a new Czechoslovak state.

On 11 November 1918, Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquished power and, on 12 November, the ethnic German areas of the empire were declared the Republic of German Austria with the intent of unifying with Germany.

However, the area was quickly taken by the Czechoslovak army with Znojmo falling on 27 December 1918.

After World War II, the area was returned to Czechoslovakia and is now[update] part of Czech Republic.

The provinces of German Austria . German South Moravia is the part of the area in pink which is north of the current boundary of Austria (red line).