Editing Anti-German sentiment (section)

=== Czechoslovakia ===
{{See also|Germans in Czechoslovakia (1918–1938)|Beneš decrees|Sudetenland|Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia}}

A few days after the end World War II, 2,000 Germans were massacred in [[Postoloprty]] and [[Žatec]] by the Czechoslovak army.<ref>{{cite news |author=Hans-Ulrich Stoldt |title=Czech Town Divided over How to Commemorate 1945 Massacre |url=http://spiegel.de/international/europe/a-646757.html}}</ref> In the summer of 1945, there were a number of incidents and localized massacres of the German population.<ref>[http://www.radio.cz/en/article/65421 Memories of World War II in the Czech Lands: the expulsion of Sudeten Germans] by Brian Kenety, Radio Praha, 2005-04-14.</ref>

The following examples are described in a study done by the European University Institute in Florence:<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Expulsion of 'German' Communities from Eastern Europe at the end of the Second World War, Steffen Prauser and Arfon Rees, European University Institute, Florence. HEC No. 2004/1 |url=http://cadmus.iue.it/dspace/bitstream/1814/2599/1/HEC04-01.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091001022039/http://cadmus.iue.it/dspace/bitstream/1814/2599/1/HEC04-01.pdf |archive-date=2009-10-01 |access-date=2006-12-02}}</ref>
* In the [[Přerov]] incident, 71 men, 120 women, and 74 children were killed.{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}}
* 30,000 Germans were forced to leave their homes in [[Brno]] for labour camps near Austria. It is estimated that several hundred died in the march.{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}}
* Estimates of killed in the [[Ústí massacre]] range from 30 to 700 civilians. Some women and children were thrown off the bridge into the Elbe River and shot.{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}}

Law No. 115 of 1946 (see [[Beneš decrees]]) provides: "Any act committed between September 30, 1938, and October 28, 1945, the object of which was to aid the struggle for liberty of the Czechs and Slovaks or which represented just reprisals for actions of the occupation forces and their accomplices, is not illegal, even when such acts may otherwise be punishable by law." As a consequence, atrocities committed during the expulsion of Germans were made legal.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/studies/benesdecrees/pdf/opinions_en.pdf|title=Legal opinion on Benes decrees<!-- Bot generated title -->}}</ref>