The European Atrocity You Never Heard About

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Mostly you've never heard about it if because of an understandable reluctance to see Germans as victims within the context of the War, something maybe not helped in this case by the fact that the advocates of these people tend to have somewhat questionable politics. Of course in Germany it was a big, big deal for decades.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

One of the most interesting aspects about the population transfers in post-war Czechoslovakia was that it was handled by Benes' democratic pro-Western government, not the Communist regime that followed it.

Which sort of belies this 'you never heard about' thing as the Beneš decrees have crept into the news a couple of times over the past two decades.