Bernd Rudolf on post-war crimes against Germans

After more than 60 years the Czech criminal police has revealed who was responsible for the greatest post-war crime against Germans in what was then Czechoslovakia. The German-language weekly Prager Zeitung applauds the move: "For decades the crimes perpetrated against Germans during the expulsion were hushed up, swept under the carpet or even flatly denied. Only a few enlightened intellectuals were bold enough to lay a finger in their own wound. It has now become possible to talk about these crimes without immediately being labelled a traitor. In addition, it makes no sense to hush up these facts in view of the lively discussions, particularly among the younger generation, which do not shy away from topics of history concerning both countries. Many of these young people - much like the generation of 1968 - will go on asking questions, want to know what happened and demand answers."

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