Edvard Benes and His Policy to Expel Czechoslovakian Germans

Authors

Travis Mueller

Keywords

World War II, Poland, Russia, Hungary, Czechoslovak Republic, Nazi, European backlash

Abstract

At the end of World War II, Poland, Romania, Hungary, and the Czechoslovak Republic expelled fifteen million Germans from their homelands in Eastern and Central Europe. During the eviction to the occupied zones of Germany, two million Germans perished.1 Often brutally mistreated, these Germans suffered the wrath of a great European backlash against the Nazis. Nowhere was the expulsion more brutal than in the Czechoslovak Republic. The two nations' shared border and intertwined history made the expulsion of over three million Germans mainly from the Sudetenland-particularly severe.

Recommended Citation

Mueller, Travis (1999) "Edvard Benes and His Policy to Expel Czechoslovakian Germans," The Thetean: A Student Journal for Scholarly Historical Writing: Vol. 28: Iss. 1, Article 8.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/thetean/vol28/iss1/8