Current Affairs Government apologises for Czech victimisation of loyal, anti-Nazi Sudeten Germans after WWII
The expulsion of more than two million ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia after World War II has long remained a source of tension in Czech-German relations and one of the most controversial chapters in Czechoslovakia's post-war history. On Wednesday, for the first time, the Czech government expressed a symbolic apology and regret over the post-war victimisation of thousands of Sudeten Germans, who had remained loyal to the Czechoslovak state and had been active in the anti-Nazi resistance. The gesture, approved unanimously by the government, has already stirred controversy. Some, like the Czech president, view it as redundant, while others will inevitably feel that it doesn't go far enough.
Jaroslav Sonka
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