No, the Catholics fled to France or Catholic regions of the Holy Roman Empire, or England (occasionally) or America. Don't forget that the Dutch Republic was formed from the territories of the Spanish and the Hapsburg family, staunch Catholics.
Jaeniver wrote: We are Protestant remember during the Huguenots i'd say the protestant french would flee to Holland not vice versa.
again, i can be very very wrong here.
They fled Holland to flee local persecution during the wars of religions, the thirty years war etc etc.
Many protestants fled the other way, and obviously the borders flap around like salmon on a beach, so territory that was Protestant (or Anabaptist ) one day may be Catholic the next.
The Houganauts mostly fled to Navarre, to Scotland (allegedly) or England, although many did end up in your own city (if I remember right?)
It was not just ethnically German The treaty of Versailles which set the border in 1919 (?) did it to take territory that was previously German and made it part of Checoslovakia for strategic reasons. Technically it was never Germany, but it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire which was itself formed out of the Holy Roamn Empire which is effectivly greater Germany.
Quote: Although Czechoslovakia had a large German population, I don''t think it was territorially part of Germany until Hitler's annexation of it and other parts of the old Hapsburg Empire during the 1930s.
Those crazy Europeans huh :cheers