Edvard Beneš, the second Czechoslovakian president, calls for the "liquidation" of Germans and Hungarians in post-war Czechoslovakia on May 16th, 1945.
Note that "liquidation" did not specifically mean "to kill" in that era, neither in Czechoslovakia nor in Germany, nor anywhere else in the world. To "liquidate," as in "to kill," is a modern euphemism.
Unfortunately, some communists took it the wrong way and started killing German civilians of all ages in typical communist savagery, as witnessed all across Europe.
Taken from the Czech documentary "Zabíjení po česku" or "Killings Czech style," 2010.
Here are some more quotes which prove "liquidation" did not refer to murder:
From The London Times, December 4th, 1942, page 3:
"The rest of the Jews in the General Government--estimated by the official Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit to number 1,700,000 at the end of 1940--would be liquidated, which means either transported eastward in cattle trucks to an unknown destination or killed where they stood."
Caught that? "which means either transported eastward in cattle trucks to an unknown destination"
Holocaust survivor Thomas Buergenthal wrote in his book A Lucky Child, 2009, page 49, about his experience in the Kielce ghetto in Poland:
"The ghetto was being liquidated or, in the words bellowing out of the loudspeakers, Ausseidlung! Ausseidlung! ('Evacuation! Evacuation!')."
Then, on page 56 he writes:
"After the liquidation of the labor camp..."
Seems like he survived the "liquidation."
From page CXXI of the preface of "Documents on the events preceding the outbreak of the war," compiled and published by the German Foreign Office, Berlin, 1939 and the German Library of Information, New York, 1940:
"[...] there came news of fresh Polish laws, passed on the day following the expiration of the Geneva Convention with the object of a fait accompli in Upper Silesia and forming a basis for further liquidation of the German minority."
Notice it says "liquidation of the German minority." The documents in question make it clear this was to be achieved by the state taking German property and forcing the Germans to leave Poland, not by killing them off.
Also worth mentioning is Stalin's usage for the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class" on December 27th, 1929.
