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
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
The expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia after World War II was part of a broader series of evacuations and deportations of Germans from Central and Eastern Europe during and after World War II.
Beneš decrees
…SNR) concerning the status of ethnic Germans, Hungarians and others in postwar Czechoslovakia and represented Czechoslovakia's legal framework for the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia. As a result, about 90% Germans and majority of Hungarians, including both those who had settled there during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia…
Sudeten Germans are forced to walk past the bodies of 30 Jewish women starved to death by German SS troops in Volary, where a total of 95 women were tortured to death
The Potsdam Conference sanctioned the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia