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    country. In journalism and political history, the term "Beneš decrees" refers to the decrees of the president and the ordinances of the Slovak National...
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  • from Czechoslovakia and, in March 1943, President Beneš received Moscow's support. In June 1943, Beneš traveled to Washington, D.C., and obtained support...
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    President of the Czech Republic, Schwarzenberg stated, referring to the Beneš decrees, that "what we committed in 1945 would today be considered a grave violation...
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    of Matěj Beneš (1843–1910) and Anna Petronila (née Beneš; 1840–1909). One of his siblings was the future Czechoslovak politician Vojta Beneš. His nephew...
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    area by order of the President of Czechoslovakia Edvard Beneš, through the so-called Beneš Decrees, which dispossessed all ethnic Germans of their property...
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    Coalition to not be let into the Slovakian parliament, and stated that the Beneš decrees (promoted the violation of human rights and racial discrimination of...
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    (spring-summer 1945) is estimated to be around 500,000 people. After the Beneš decrees, nearly all Germans were expelled starting in 1946 and in 1950 only...
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  • from Karl Nebrich, a Bohemian German industrialist expelled under the Beneš decrees. Korbel was appointed as the Czechoslovak ambassador to Yugoslavia,...
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    Republic. The Beneš decrees were promulgated concerning ethnic Germans (see Potsdam Agreement) and ethnic Hungarians. Under the decrees, citizenship was...
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    Republic in the European Union by demanding a complete revocation of the Beneš decrees which established the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia after...
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    promulgated a series of laws that are now referred to as the "Beneš decrees". One part of these decrees dealt with the status of ethnic Germans and Hungarians...
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    promulgated a series of laws that are now referred to as the "Beneš decrees". One part of these decrees dealt with the status of ethnic Germans and Hungarians...
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    2008-02-12. KDH denies the correction of the wrongdoings of the Benes-decrees in Hungarian Beneš Decrees confirmed in Slovakia in Hungarian Sólyom: Slovak decision...
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    up Jews for deportation in 1942. In the post-war, under one of the Beneš decrees, No. 16/1945 Coll., membership in the Hlinka Guard was punishable by...
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  • Viktor Orbán demanded the repeal of the Beneš Decrees, but the European Parliament asserted that "the decrees did not constitute an insurmountable obstacle...
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    expulsion of the German population of Karlovy Vary by the Czech state (see Beneš decrees). Becherovka became one of Czechoslovakia's most popular export items...
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    The German speaking population was expelled in 1945 according to the Beneš decrees and replaced by Czech settlers. Dolní Věstonice is known for viticulture...
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    the Beneš decrees. While Beneš was not a Moscow cadre and several domestic reforms of other Eastern Bloc countries were not part of Beneš's plan, Stalin...
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    Landsmannschaft that he has led since 2000 - is to revoke the so-called Beneš decrees, as well as other acts of the post-war expulsions that were meant to...
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    the war, but were soon expelled without their properties under the Beneš decrees, part of a widespread expulsion of ethnic Germans from eastern Europe...
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    where they were again expropriated, this time "as Germans" under the Beneš decrees. They emigrated to Canada and the US. Their only remaining possession...
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    of the prewar total) remained by 1947. The citizenship rules of the Beneš decrees were revoked in 1948 but not the expropriations. According to national...
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    violated by any of the combatants. In 1945, Czechoslovakia instated the Beneš decrees, which included Liechtenstein citizens and assets as German. Czechoslovakia...
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  • Bierut Decrees German: Bierut-Dekrete is a term used in German historiography referring to a series of decrees, laws and regulations enacted by the Provisional...
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    Czechoslovakia, destined to be expelled from the country in line with the Beneš decrees. The expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia was a taboo topic in communist...
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  • Representatives, asked Prime Minister Fico to distance themselves from the Beneš decrees, for a reasonable process in the Malina case, and to treat members of...
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    British government demanded that Beneš request a mediator. Not wishing to sever his government's ties with Western Europe, Beneš reluctantly accepted. The British...
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    suggested that the laws under which the Germans were expelled, the Beneš decrees, did not fall under the jurisdiction of EU law. After Klaus refused...
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    expelled from their ancestral lands to Germany on the basis of the Beneš decrees. In the course of these events, multiple massacres and crimes against...
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    September 2007, when Fico's government introduced a law making the Beneš decrees inviolable. This was in response to demands from ethnic Hungarian politicians...
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