Bohemia question

Hey all:

I am wondering: what are thoughts on the Protectorate of Bohemia - Moravia in 2009 if Germany had won WWII? Would Czech culture/language survive seventy years where German was THE vehicle for education/politics/commerce/industry? I imagine that as radio/TV develop the Germans will make sure only German broadcasting is allowed.
 
I doubt Czech would survive as the Germans wanted to expell 50% of Czech and Germanise the rest.
 
Bye bye Bohemia?

The Germans were on the record as planning to settle Bohemia intensively with Volksdeutsch. Assuming a German victory, the Czechs would have gotten the Slav treatment - one third expelled, one third worked/starved to death, one third kept as de facto serfs and slaves...the Czech language would have survived among them in a primitive, non-written form...I would not have bet on their long term survival as a cohesive ethnos in this dystopia. But then again, Nazi Germany would not have stayed the same and perhaps the Czechs could have outlasted their conquerors, much as they did with the Austrians...but they would have required an entire new national rebirth, just like in the 19th century.
 

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But then again, Nazi Germany would not have stayed the same and perhaps the Czechs could have outlasted their conquerors, much as they did with the Austrians...but they would have required an entire new national rebirth, just like in the 19th century.

I am terribly skeptical about this. Czechia and (Western) Poland were the closer, most immediate, easiest, and among the most valuable targets for Nazi expansionism. Here Germanization, mass killings, and expulsions would have been implemented most easily and most forcefully. I can see a Nazi leadership which becomes more moderate eventually giving up large tracts or even most of European Russia, but IMO they would deal with any attempt at Czech or Polish resurgence the same way that Russia dealt with separatist Chechenya, unless they suffer total military defeat, economic collapse, or political/economic collapse relatively soon after the war. IMO in a generation, Czech culture in Bohemia-Moravia or Polish culture in (Western) Poland would go the way of Native American culture in New York or Alabama, albeit it is theoretically possible that a significant Polish remnant may survive and experience a national revival in Eastern Poland if the Nazi regime eventually collapses or mollifies. And of course, Czech and Polish populations that are expelled to the post-Soviet space may eventually manage to rebuild national enclaves somewhere, if they are not absorbed by the other Slavs or emigrate in mass outside Europe.
 
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