The Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft ( en,

Sudeten German German Bohemians (german: Deutschböhmen und Deutschmährer, i.e. German Bohemians and German Moravians), later known as Sudeten Germans, were ethnic Germans living in the Czech lands of the Bohemian Crown, which later became an integral part ...

Homeland Association) is an organization representing Sudeten German expellees and refugees from the

Sudetenland The Sudetenland ( , ; Czech and sk, Sudety) is the historical German name for the northern, southern, and western areas of former Czechoslovakia which were inhabited primarily by Sudeten Germans. These German speakers had predominated in the ...

in Czechoslovakia. Most of them were forcibly expelled and deported to western

Allied occupation zones of Germany Germany was already de facto occupied by the Allies from the real fall of Nazi Germany in World War II on 8 May 1945 to the establishment of the East Germany on 7 October 1949. The Allies (United States, United Kingdom, Soviet Union, and France ...

, which would later form West Germany, from their homelands inside Czechoslovakia during the expulsion of Germans after World War II. Wappen der Sudetendeutschen

The charter was signed in

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

in 1950 and committed the organization to the renouncing of revenge and retaliation and promoting European accord. The organization tried to slow down the membership of today's Czech Republic in the European Union by demanding a complete revocation of the

Beneš decrees The Beneš decrees, sk, Dekréty prezidenta republiky) and the Constitutional Decrees of the President of the Republic ( cz, Ústavní dekrety presidenta republiky, sk, Ústavné dekréty prezidenta republiky) were a series of laws drafted by t ...

which established the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia after the war and declared them unlawful. The Landsmannschaft is currently based in Munich, Bavaria. Its chairman is Bernd Posselt. It is a member of the

Federation of Expellees The Federation of Expellees (german: link=no, Bund der Vertriebenen; BdV) is a non-profit organization formed in West Germany on 27 October 1957 to represent the interests of German nationals of all ethnicities and foreign ethnic Germans and their ...

(Bund der Vertriebenen, BdV). Since Pentecost of 1950, the Landsmannschaft has organized a traditional convention, the , which mostly takes place in southern Germany, in Augsburg or Nuremberg. In 1950 the Homeland Association already vowed to reject any form of violence and revenge.

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Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft
branch in Germany
Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft in Österreich
branch in Austria
SL New York / SL USA

Brasilien/Brazil
Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft in Argentina

Sudetendeutscher-Tag.de

SdJ – Jugend für Mitteleuropa e.V.
(SdJ = Sudetendeutsche Jugend), youth organization in Germany
Sudetendeutsche Jugend Österreichs
youth organization in Austria
Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft, Landesgruppe Bayern
Organizations established in 1950 Landsmannschaften Sudeten German people Sudetenland 1950 establishments in West Germany {{Germany-org-stub

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