Czechs protest planned remembrance for German WWII expellees

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2026-04-29

Prague (dpa) - Around 500 people demonstrated in the Czech city of Brno on Tuesday against plans to hold a day commemorating ethnic Germans expelled after World War II, according to the Czech news agency CTK. The participants responded to a call by the far-right Freedom and Direct Democracy Party (SPD). Its founder, parliamentary speaker Tomio Okamura, called the planned gathering of Sudeten Germans in late May a "crying shame," CTK reported. Dem......

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