Culture Minister Herman to attend meeting of Sudeten German Landsmannschaft

Czech Culture Minister Daniel Herman is to address a weekend gathering of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft on Sunday. This is the first time that the Czech government has sent an official representative to a meeting of the Landsmannschaft association. Relations between the Czech government and the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft improved after the association confirmed that it would no longer strive for financial compensation or the return of property confiscated from the 2.5 million Sudeten Germans driven from post-war Czechoslovakia under the Beneš decrees. On Saturday the association awarded Hans-Adam II, the reigning Prince of Liechtenstein, the Charles IV Prize for fostering understanding among European nations.