The Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft ( en, Sudeten German Homeland Association) is an organization representing Sudeten German expellees and refugees from the Sudetenland in

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. Most of them were forcibly expelled and deported to western Allied occupation zones of Germany, which would later form

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, from their homelands inside

Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...

during the

expulsion of Germans after World War II Expulsion or expelled may refer to: General * Deportation * Ejection (sports) * Eviction * Exile * Expeller pressing * Expulsion (education) * Expulsion from the United States Congress * Extradition * Forced migration * Ostracism * Persona ...

The charter was signed in Stuttgart 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

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by demanding a complete revocation of the Beneš decrees which established the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia after the war and declared them unlawful. The Landsmannschaft is currently based in

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. Its chairman is Bernd Posselt. It is a member of the Federation of Expellees (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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