Prague Refuses Apology to Sudeten Germans

They have acted on this. Farber was on trial in 1957 already and guess who saved his ass? The Dutch! He got German citizenship when he joined the SS and for the same reason lost Dutch citzienship after 1945. Thus extradition wasn´t legally possible but the Dutch wanted him extradited anyway and held back evidence. Result: He was aquitted.

Now German prosecutors try again with new evidence but it´s a bit hard to prove muerder after such a long time and muerder it has to be as everything else is subject to a status of limitation.


That´s a far cry from what the Czechs have done. They have not declared an amnesty for crimes committed against the Germans after the war, they have declared crimes against Germans to be no crimes in the first place.

 

Ok Gents, since you are all getting moderate about this and that the thread is getting back on track, I shall leave this open for you. (at least for now) P_grenate1:anic:

 

The German people didn't start the war, nor did the entire populatiuon support the war "wholeheartedly" as you imply. Does everybody in the U.S. support the Iraq invasion? Vietnam? The problem with your logic, that it was the German's "tough luck" that millions of them were slaughtered and expelled from their own territories, is that you suggest innocent people deserve to be murdered based on their forced association. With your logic, it would be right for me to say that we should kill the victim of a violent crime because she/he was "associated" with it. Or, a criminal's family should be tortured because one of them committed a crime, and therefore the family must've be supportive of it and are thereby equally guilty. Guilt by association is a dangerous rule. I don't mean to be rude, it just seems that judging "who deserved what" throughout history, without knowing every fact and detail of someone's situation, is a very, very slippery slope.

 

Ladies and Gentlemen, let's stop fighting and just agree with each other's opinions. Everybody has their own point of view on the situation. Personaly I will NOT pick any side simply because I know nothing on this subject. Lets just see how things turn out.

 

The fighting ended months ago, but I suspect it will resume again.

 

Let's go a bit further in the past: during the Habsburg era large numbers of ethnic Germans, predominantly from Bavaria, have settled on the peripheral countryside of Bohemia, at the actual Czech-German border. Czechs have welcomed them and have adopted them as neighbors and compatriots in their own land.

Sudety Germans were Czech citizens of German ethnicity. After the occupation they voluntarily adopted German citizenship, hence their rights arising from Czech citizenship ceased to exist. After the deliberation all foreign citizens had to leave the country; voluntarily, to escape punishment for crimes they eventually have committed as Nazis. Under occupation Czechs have heavily suffered like all other nations of the Eastern Europe. I can understand that some of Czechs have lost temper and did things they shouldn't, but these things weren't organized. Legal bodies and police weren't yet in place after the war.

It isn't appropriate to ask excuses from victims especially if their aggressors were exactly those whom they granted the rights to live on their own land for few centuries.

 

Well, this is going in circles over and over again, so methinks it's time to move to different horizons.

Thread closed.