http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riesengebirge
Sorry for confusion but look at the Wiki in link.
It lies between Chech Rep. and Poland (both German areas in the past).
Hardy
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From: "cornel fleming" <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>
To: "'HARDY BREIER'" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>; "'CZERNOWITZ-L'"
<Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 6:59 PM
Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Ruebezahl
> Sorry,Hardy...but the ex-Sudetenland is part of the Czech republic and was
> the area populated by the Sudeten Germans...who were used by Hitler as an
> excuse to invade.The capital was called Reichenberg,now called Liberec and
> is the first place I lived in on leaving Czernowitz!! Schlesien...Silesia
> in English..was Germany but a large part was given to Poland by Stalin at
> the end of the war in exchange for bits of Poland stolen by him. Cornel
>
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