Bamberg Symphony
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The Bamberg Symphony is a German professional orchestra that has resided in Bamberg since being founded in 1946 and regularly tours internationally.
Bamberger Symphoniker, Kurhaus Wiesbaden
Beneš decrees
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The Beneš decrees were a series of laws drafted by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile in the absence of the Czechoslovak parliament during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in World War II. Th
Bamberg Symphony
…Bamberg since being founded in 1946 and regularly tours internationally. The Bamberg Symphony was founded in 1946 by musicians who as a result of the Beneš decrees had been driven out of Bohemia, Moravia, the Czech Sudetenland as well as from German cities and had ended up in Bamberg. The "core" of the orchestra…
Edvard Beneš, 1935–1938 and 1940–1948 President of Czechoslovakia
Adolf Hitler being welcomed by a crowd in Sudetenland, where the pro-Nazi Sudeten German Party gained 88% of ethnic-German votes in May 1938.
Germans being deported from the Sudetenland after World War II
Hungarians forcibly relocated from Gúta (Kolárovo) unpacking their belongings from train in Mladá Boleslav, Czechoslovakia, February, 1947