Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:17:11 +0200Czechs, Germans and Austrians take part in reconciliation march commemorating violent post-war expulsionshttps://english.radio.cz/czechs-germans-and-austrians-take-part-reconciliation-march-commemorating-8224331© 2026 Radio Prague International On May 31st 1945, in the aftermath of WW II, some twenty thousand German-speaking inhabitants of Brno were driven from their homes and forced to walk the 50 km distance to the Austrian border. Close to 2,000 of them died of exhaustion on the way. On Saturday some 250 people took part in the 10th annual Reconciliation March held in memory of those who suffered and died in the wildcat expulsions of German-speaking inhabitants from the border areas of post-war Czechoslovakia. Jaroslav Odstrčilík, the organizer of the event, explains the significance of the undertaking. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/pochod_smireni.jpg?timestamp=1590595142 Czechs, Germans and Austrians take part in reconciliation march commemorating violent post-war expulsions https://english.radio.cz/czechs-germans-and-austrians-take-part-reconciliation-march-commemorating-8224331 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9