Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia (1946)

Expulsion of the Sudeten Germans (Czechoslovak Film Chronicle)
Die Vertreibung der Sudetendeutschen (Tschechoslowakischen Film Chronicle)
Odsun sudetských Němců (Československá filmová kronika)

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[xohollistermiaxo]

I was hoping the video would have english subtitles. My mother was a german girl expelled from Czechoslovakia in August 1945 and I am writing her story for a research paper for college and watching the video validates everything she told me but being able to understand it would have been great.

[14DENISS88]

No more wars between Europeans. No more conflicts among Christians. We seek for peace, love and unity.

[Miller23100]

Es ist eine Schande. Auch ist es nicht kann ich nicht sehen. Eine Entschuldigung ist vorhanden. Versöhnung

It is a shame. Nor is it I can not watch. An apology is in place. reconciliation

[Miller23100]

Es ist eine Schande. Auch ist es nicht kann ich nicht sehen. Eine Entschuldigung ist vorhanden. Versöhnung

[P1B1U1H1]

@MvDrak Ha! Did not even know about Komotau. Not the racist laws, but the obvious next step precluded consideration of autonomy. You'd have to have been nuts, like Beck really was, not to think Hitler was going to grab the rest of Czechoslovakia after he got the Sudetenland. Did anyone really believe Lebensraum did not apply to the rest of Czechoslovakia? As for Sharia, a better example IMHO is Kashmir, a definite part of India that "needs" to be part of Pakistan.

[MvDrak]

@P1B1U1H1 yes, they could not wait. the city of Chomutov/Komotau was declared "judenrein" on September 23, 1938, before Munich agreement was in effect... this is what they called "liberation"... that's why the Czechoslovak government denied autonomy of so called Sudetenland, it was unacceptable that any racist Nuremberg laws be applied in one part of the country while the rest would be liberal democracy.. it would be like the Muslim minority declared Sharia laws to be applicable in Germany

[P1B1U1H1]

@MvDrak Nazis claimed "expulsion" BEFORE annexing the Sudetanland!

[MvDrak]

@P1B1U1H1 Fabulous statement indeed. Only one month after our former fellow citizens got their "selfdetermination" and were reunited with their fellow Volksgenossen, they burnt down 35 synagoges in Sudetenland alone (eg. Opava/Troppau). Not a single word of protest .. this was their "peace for all times"..

[P1B1U1H1]

@IustitiaPax the ever-present threat that if the territories go German the political minorities will be exterminated, will assure the outcome of these plebiscites. One might just as well cede them to Germany in the first place.

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This is history. A fabulous statement of the situation by one of the greatest journalists who ever lived. .

[P1B1U1H1]

@IustitiaPax & this in spite of the fact that the British & French governments know that in the occupation of Austria the property of political minorities, & in particular of Jews, was simply confiscated. There is not the most elementary consideration of justice. An international commission will determine further territories in which a plebiscite is to be held, & will fix the conditions.