Editing South Bohemian Region (section)

== History ==
On 1 May 1939 the [[Reichsgau Oberdonau]] was created by the [[Nazis]] in accordance with the [[Ostmark (Austria)|Ostmark]] law of 14 April 1939 on the territory of [[Upper Austria]] following the [[Anschluss]] (annexation of Austria) in autumn 1938. This encompassed those districts of South Bohemia ([[Bezirk Kaplitz|Kaplitz]] und [[Okres Český Krumlov|Krumau]]) that had long been settled by Germans.<ref>Michael Rademacher: Reichsgau Oberdonau. Online-Material zur Dissertation, Osnabrück 2006. In: treemagic.org.</ref> This was reversed after the [[Second World War]] and the German-speaking population that had lived in the area since the Middle Ages<ref>Rainer Rudolf: ''Studien zur frühneuhochdeutschen Schriftsprache in Südböhmen.'' Vienna 1973 (= ''Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften: Studien zur österreichisch-bairischen Dialektkunde'', 8).</ref> was [[Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia|expelled]]. Until 2001 the region of South Bohemia was called "Budějovický kraj".