Edvard Benes: The Liquidator

Edvard Beneš: The Liquidator is a book by the Czech authoress Sidonia Dedina^[1] describing the purges of ethnic Germans in the Soviet Union's puppet Communist State of Czechoslovakia immediately following World War II.

Content

It provides gruesome details on the expulsions, atrocities and murders of ethnic Germans for whom Bohemia and Moravia and Sudetenland had been their homelands for up to 1000 years. These took place under the authority of Edvard Beneš, mainly in April and May 1945, continuing for the ensuing year. The worst took place before the Potsdam Conference. They were cold-bloodedly planned and brutally executed by the new government in Prague. Beneš' hatred of Germans drove him and his adherents on.

The eventual fall of communism in 1991 yielded no softening of the harsh anti-German expulsion laws created to legalize the 1945-46 genocides. This book is essential reading on this murderous period in Czechoslovakia.

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German civilians in Prague rounded up by Czech terrorists await their fate, 1945.
German civilians being expelled from Pilsen, May 1945.
German civilians murdered by Czechs await the mass grave.
German civilians being expelled from their homes in the Sudetenland by the Czechs.
German civilians executed at the side of a road by Czech terrorists
Germans forced to dig roadside graves for their executed kin (above) before being executed themselves by the Czechs.
Tod der Nichte (Czech atrocities in German)
Memorial in Germany to the murdered ethnic German population of the Sudetenland.