The HORRIFIC Executions Of The German Civilians Shot By The Czechs 

As the saying goes: *_"A day of war breeds a hundred years of hatred."_* People speak too lightly of war...

When people now a days say they're having a "bad" day, phones battery died, gas is expensive...they have no clue how bad shit can be or get...my mom was a teenager in Osaka during WWII and remembers "shiny silver" bombers over the city. So, if you think things are bad, it can get a whole lot worse.

When I was stationed in Germany, I rented an apartment from a family in Kaiserslautern. The grandmother had been born in Czechoslovakia, but eventually arrived in West Germany. She and her family were some of the Sudeten Germans that the narrator speaks of. The grandmother told me that when the Red Army arrived in her village, they proceeded to murder all of the German families. Her family survived, only because her sister had either studied the Russian language, or was a teacher of the language. She was able to speak to the Russian soldiers and the officers in charge of the unit, who decided her family would be spared, for the fact that one of them spoke Russian. The remaining Germans were executed.

The photo of people in front of the wall is from Celje, Slovenia (Yugoslavia at that time)... it is a Prison known as Old Pot (Stari pisker)

Divide and conquer - it applied then and it still applies now.

As a Czech it's a bit worrying how so many of Czechs don't know about these horrible acts or even try and say they were justified. This should be shown in every history class. And all of this happened because of a number of grudges (Czechoslovakian politics was very anti German pre ww2, then the Germans started to be heavily involved with Nazis) that came with the concept of national states. Germans, Czechs, Jews... every common citizen lived peacefully until politicians started to want "clean states" with only one ethnicity, this lead to so many genocides, just horrible.

First image is definely not from Czech republic but taken in Slovenia, prison in Celje. Showing Germans shooting civilian hostages!

My late fiancé's parents were many of the thousands of Sudeten Germans who were forced from their homes after the end of WWII. Her father did not suffer at the hands of the so-called liberators as he was a POW in one of the satellite camps around Fort Campbell, KY but her mother and grandmother were summarily evicted from the home where they and their predecessors lived for over a hundred years and forced onto the road with whatever they could carry on their backs or in a small hand-pulled wagon. They eventually settled in a small town outside of Ansbach, Germany because my fiancé's parents knew Americans were close and they would protect them.

Thank for your videos.

The Germans at least resettled their people in Germany.. They haven’t kept them in refugee camps for 80 years in the hope that they will one day go back to their homes in the Sudetenland or East Prussia.

No Germans moved to Czechia during the war, only soldiers, or SS members. Normal German people were still living there over centuries.

If I recall the Germans executed 1600 Czechs in only one village in 1942....

What a terrible time to be alive

FYI : A lot of these German Civilians were Czechs but they give up their Czechs citizenship to become German Citizens and Aided the Germans .

You know this is a very complicated case to judge that easily. My great-grand aunt Hildegard König lived along with her Czech mother Františka and her German father a Wehrmacht officer Karl König in former Czechoslovakia back in the 1920's and 30's. Her father Karl died in May 1939 in the Slovakian city Piešťany at local spa as a result of his Tuberculosis. Hildegard (we called her Hilda) survived the inferno of the WW2 and in June 1945 was expelled along with her mother and brother Florian from Czechoslovakia to Frankfurt am Main where she lived until her death in 2002 (with a lil break between April 1944 - June 1945). She visited her native house in Olomouc next to the train station where they used to live as frequently as possible but it was pretty difficult for a stranger to visit Czechoslovakia in the time of reign of communists (1948-1989). Especially for former Sudenten(Germans) who had been considered traitors due to their infamous "Heim ins Reich" quote and their actions against Czech people in September 1938. My mother remembers she never said a bad word about Czechs or Czechoslovakia in general even tho she could have told many sad stories about 1945. She spoke fluently Czech, German, English and French sadly she never married in order to care of her ill mother who lost her leg during British bombardment in March 1944. History plays a dirty game with all of us at times I would say.

Too many repeats not enough detail

As a Czech, I say that it was wrong to do this to the German-speaking Czechs, but I certainly don't think it was wrong to expel the Sudeten Germans, on the contrary, they can be glad for the expulsion because according to the law they faced the death penalty. The Sudeten Germans were a political party that had the support of the majority of German Czechs and actively collaborated with Hitler. Henlein, as the head of the Sudeten German Party, declared the liquidation of Czechoslovakia on 17 September 1938, and thus the party committed treason, which in the Czechoslovakia was punishable by life imprisonment or death. Yes the lynching (like any lynching) was wrong because as always it was mainly the innocent who suffered. Guilt and punishment should have been decided in court. Unfortunately to convict every German-speaking resident separately would have been somewhat complicated especially in the conditions that prevailed after the war and so anyone who was part of the Sudeten German Party or volunteered for German citizenship in 1938 was deported on that basis, so Czech traitors were also deported alongside Germans. On the other hand, those Germans who were useful to the Czechoslovakia remained. (I feel most sorry for the German democrats who remained loyal to the republic, but since the communists were already preparing to take over, they were expelled along with the Nazis and traitors.) So if someone calls himself a Sudeten German without being originally from the historical Sudetenland (the northern mountain range stretching between the Ore Mountains and Jesenik) he is in my opinion a Nazi because only the Nazis referred to the entire German-speaking Czech borderlands as the Sudetenland and they enforced this term in Munich on September 30, 1938. So if people cannot paint a swastika because it is a symbol of Nazism the term Sudeten German should not be used because it is a Nazi term for Czech Germans.

It is amazing, so Czechoslovakia was occupied by two countries, Germany and some "Nazi country"? I have never heard of the second country. BTW I certainly do not like what was done to Germans after 9 May 1945, that is for sure. Just for comparison, Germans killed 300 - 350 000 people from area of current Czech Republic. My father survived 6 May only because od Germans decided to murdre everyone in next street (that time Usobska, now its name is "Obeti 6. kvetna), not in his. 54 people were murdered there including one 16 years old German girl.

There’s a book called “The Savage Peace” that talks about the revenge killings after the war. The title came from a statement by a German officer who is supposed to have said:”Enjoy the war because the peace will be savage”.

Very sad but doesn't surprise me. Certainly there was a loss of the rule of law and due process just as during the Nazi regime. But then this has been a recurring theme, even recently as well long ago. Look happened in Canada during the early 1700s where thousands of French Acadians expelled from the Maritimes to Louisiana and other areas

let him who is without sin cast the first stone...

Remember Lidice

Bohemia and Moravia belonged to the core of the Holy Roman Empire for a thousand years and more, so normality had been restored after 20 years of error and - as can be read - czech militarism and oppression of minorities. My grandmother was a Czech married to my German grandpa, who served in the czech army and then on the eastern front. She once told me with tears in her eyes : The atrocities were committed by an armed extremist section called the Benesh-People.

How about Oradour Sur Glane, Lidice?? Germany??

It is always terrible to kill civilian people, in fact war is stupid in its principle. I just would wish that everybody who sees this also put it in the context, Nazis killed entire villages in Czech like Lidice, including children... not speaking about others. So once a nation/army cross certain threshold in cruelty, the people became animals and act likes animals, on both sides. We were not there, but I could imagine how Czechs would feel for the revenge... If they would kill your kids or family? It is not an excuse, just be sure to put it in context, if Nazis would not start act like animals, the rest of the world would not be pushed to act like animals as well...

Cruelty begets cruelty.

Don't get mad. Get even.

@Theuntoldpast love the videos but any chance you can do a nice long one for me please

Making them dig their own grave. It sounds cliche' but it was revenge in a brutal time.

The post war tragedy of ordinary Germans has barely been told. It's OK to talk about the crimes of the nazis, and it is just that nazi war criminals were tried and executed. But it is also fair to mention that an estimated 14 million Germans were violently expelled from what for the most part had been their ancestral lands for centuries. Not only from the Sudetenland, with an estimated three million Germans, but also from the German eastern provinces ceded to Poland: Silesia, Pomerania and East Prussia, where ca. nine million Germans had lived since the 13th and 14th centuries. Add to that a couple of million that for almost two centuries had been invited to settle in the underpopulated areas around the lower Danube, in Romania, Yugoslavia and Hungary. This has been the largest forced population migration in human history. Estimates vary, but between half a million and two million are believed to have died from violence, starvation and disease. Many more would die upon their arrival in what was left of Germany, under allied occupation, where everyone was subject to the vindictive rule of 1000 calories per day at least until 1947. It is true that the crimes of the nazis are without parallel in history because of their odious and racist nature, but anyone who says that the German people didn't suffer enough simply doesn't know about this obscure chapter if the post war history.

thank you for your post

Will you equally condemn the British soldiers and liberated prisoners of Dachau concentration camp who slaughtered the German guards even though they surrendered? It was certainly not "proper" but it is entirely understandable given their horrific experiences. It is a mistake to judge past events by our contemporary standards and under incomparable circumstances. Violence breeds violence. Civilization and compassion ends when you see a dead and tortured body of someone you knew or loved, or if a violent foreign invader to your lands treats you like a subhuman for six years. Unspeakable acts bring unspeakable acts of revenge. We can't blame the desperate victims for craving for revenge. Many of us probably would, too.

My German grandmother spent part of the war in a concentration camp in Yugoslavia. Her sister disappeared one night never to be seen again and her best friend also died. She never talked about it.

It's ignorant to think that you can pull the pendulum far in one direction and then have it only return to center once released.

The soviets execucted war criminals and its BRUTAL The US executes war criminals And its Justified. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Big crimes have been commited against Germans in Yugoslavia too.

And your point is ? Germans nazis were horrible with occupied countries' populations ,just savage and barbaric. You can't expect that when seeing Germans routed by Soviets they were not to take their revenge. The Sudeten problem was solved by expulsing Germans from Sudeten to Germany. War is dirty.

This period in history is not taught in schools around the world simply because it might offend some students.

My grandfather came over here to the US after the war. He was in the Czech military. He's been dead for over 20 years, but he had no problem talking about his time there. He was a mean man, not towards us, but you could tell he had done some bad things, but I'm pretty sure he was just that way naturally, not because of the war. A sniper took off his first finger off, but otherwise, he would have taken a bullet somewhere in his body.

Two Wrongs will never make a right

Well a bit logical after 6 years after terror. And again the ''international powers nor league of nations'' didn't want to burn their hands nor take responsibility in that part of Europe.

Killing innocent people is murder.

I was never there, I have never experienced the suffering or fear people faced under the Nazis. I honestly don't know if I would be one of those to seek reprisals. How do any of us know?

Just remember that there is always someone out there in the world pissed off at you for no other reason than they loosely associate you with some bastard that did them wrong.

My grandmother was born in Russia, under the Czar's rule. In 1918, where she lived became Czechoslovakia, and she moved to the US shortly after. She HATED the Russians, and Germans, with a passion. That part of Europe changed hands VERY frequently..and was always accompanied by war crimes.

Remember Lidice?

The Czechs also evicted all Germans from Western Bohemia where they had lived in harmony with Czechs for hundreds of years. That de-populated region was later repopulated by Sinti and Roma people for the most part.

My family, grandparents aunt and my mother were Sudetenland Germans west of Usti nad Laben. (Formerly Aussig). Luckily they got out with what they could carry, warned to take no valuables. There were reprisals and also, in Germany, they weren’t exactly welcome at first since there was little food and housing. Eventually they ended up in France near Lilles. My grandfather working in the coal mines for about 5 years before getting papers to emigrate to Canada.

now you know what happened to east prussians

Some would say they got away lightly all things considered

The problem with the German army was that the head of their air force was a big "you-know-what."

Most of these "german" Chechs had in fact many hundreds of years of heritedge in Böhmen Mähren. In fact hundreds and in some cases, theire ansestery where more than thousen year before the so called "protestantiche semiten" had come to the areas then beeing Tchecoslovakia. And not a few, of these "new protestants", and new Catolics, where in fact relative newcommers to the country. And among them were not "that few" that were not only collaboratoers with the Nazi germany and the industrial financial elites that had payed for and "ordered" the occupation and the "seizing" of assets belonging to both civilians, companies, as to the state, but in fact organizers of said actions and theft. .

What did these German civilians expect ? They knew what they're military had done to defenceless civilians, so why didn't they retreat with everyone else ?

And hitler in hell was laughing his head off . How he must have hated the germans for losing his war .

To be like the evil , in seeking revenge the same way you become just the very same.. That sadly is a fact…

Doświadczyli na sobie tego ,co robili ich ubermensche w Polsce...

That all happened after the war, beginning in May 45. The bloody summer 1945. About 200000 were killed, mostly civilians.

In the heart of every man & woman lies the heart of a beast & angel. The one we feed is the one that wins.

They were Chech people with german ancestry, they did not kill anyone...check out the video ''Töten auf Tschechisch'' Why would you shoot women and children and run them over with tanks? Punishing somoen for their ancestry? that is what the Nazis did.

Revenge is a terrible thing, and makes people become no better than the people who victimized them in the first place.

As ye sow, so shall ye reap.

During our vacation in Bohemia (around 1975), we made a day trip to Marienbad. There, a man accosted us in German and complained about the way the Czeck government treated the Sudeten.

What about the 400 german soldiers who were POW's who had been kept in a castle but then taken forced to dig a huge pit and then shot! Pictures exist and there is a plaque at the Castle!

they had coloaborated with Nazis and supported them. Sometimes they were more cruel than Nazis. Many people were sent to concentrations camps due to colaborations of german minorities in Poland or Czech.

Honest history is the way to go. Each country should be heald up to scrutiny by independent unbiased professionals who have pass certain bar's in their profession. ✊ ☘️

This is Crime-against-Humanity and is punishable under law. If you know anything you should report to Haag and the International Court.

It is not quite surprising that after the horrors of Nazism, some excesses against Germans occurred. These crimes cannot be made equal to order of magnitude higher crimes of Nazis. Many perpetrators were prosecuted. There was no systematic killing of Germans - eye for eye would meant 300,000+ Germans killed, corresponding to Czech losses during the German occupation. Nazi criminals were duly judged according to the law.

LIDICE

Next will be a cry for Reparations from the descendants of the Germans.

My grandparents were expelled from the Cheb region. Traumatized until the end of his life .1945 after the end of the war

would happen today with same scenario

Czechs had good reason, The Germans perpetrated countless massacres of locals including, a *full day after* they surrendered. Massacre in Běloves and the Burning of Lejčkov, both May 9 1945.

Evil can evolve in each side

My Dept. Boss at Lufthansa Reservations in London 1969-1992 was a Sudetenlander from Pilsen. He and his brother were forcibly conscipted into the Wehrmacht in 1938 despite them being teenagers and both sent off to fight in Russia. He told me a few things about his life, ending up as a Pow in England and allowed to stay after WW2 as he became sstateless.Human history has always been written blood.

I think people who have not lived in the shoes of those who lived under German rule during WW2 .... have no right to judge the actions of those who did after the war. Sometimes reprisals are justified based upon what went before. It truly is time to let World War 2 go and forget what happened and focus on the here and now. People who refuse to let go of what happened - relive it every day. We are now a different time and a different people.

The German minority in the Sudentenland greeted the entering German troops with enthusiasm. It was similar in Poland, where the local Germans in September 1939 pointed out Polish patriots to the invaders. I regret that we did not settle accounts with them like the Czechs.

Question: How many Studeten Germans fought with the Czech underground/partisans or with Czech freedom fighters or join Soviet troops?

What goes around...

I was not familiar at all with these incidents before this.

There is also a video of civilians (Germans) run over by cars. This is said to be after the war. Obviously not a war crime or anything else

A Seventh Day Adventist family who were Sudeten Germans were told at the end of the war: "You want to be German, it's that way" pointing toward Germany. The Germans didn't want all these people coming in to be settled on their land; these people who had lived for generations on land which had been owned by first one country's king and then another but were 'German' or Polish or Alsatian.

I guess I have misunderstood the nature of the Sudatenland, I thought that was German territory lost in the treaty of Versailles and the original occupation was of proper German land. Then Hitler took Czechoslovakia illegally. War is waste.

I don't believe in executing someone just because of their race or nationality, this goes for Germans that were never tried for any crimes, the Czechs and the Red Army had become guilty of what they accused the Nazis of doing!

The atrocities committed by the allies needs to be known about also in order to show the futility and insanity of war. However there is one very glaring mistake here. You state that the czec germans were driven from their homes. Most of them were homes stolen from the Czechs.

On first foto you have showen exsecution of Slovenians by German police and SS in prison Stari pisker in Celje town. In German occupation of Slovenija between 1941 - 1945 has been killed thousands of prisoners who were cilvilst hostages males and females as an retribution for partisans action in this area.

There is a good book "The Czech-German Drama . Establishment and collapse of a multinational state as a prelude to the Second World War.1918-1939

The Red Army kept out of the Killings of Sudetan's , these Germans had Loved the Heil Hitler's in 1938 when Hitler annexed the Sudetanland. why bother about these!

I'm a firm believer in an eye for an eye.

Did you know one of the forced cheq workers sabotaged the rounds and a surviving b17 had 11 undetonated rounds in its fuel tank, and when one was cut open, it's had a note saying this is all i can do for now

Nothing new, this went on all over Europe, Yugoslavia was another example, the war had ended but the killing of innocent civilians and former combatants went on well into 50s and 60s and forced relocation of ethnic Germans from the north of the country went on. Often just to take their lands and possessions. It was a bad time to be living.

After I retired I got a teaching credential and were generally the substitute I did have two long-term jobs. One of them was in a preschool. I spent two summers in one full year there. One of the women that work there was a Sudeten German who married an American soldier. Obviously she had to have been a small child but what she remembers is rather interesting. Church bells ringing and everyone leaving their houses immediately. I suppose this her parents hadn't voted with their feet. They would still be in Czechoslovakia or rather the Czech Republic.

Around 12 million Germans and ethnic Germans, civilians, died at and after the end of the war. The concentration camps didn't close when the war ended. They were filled with German civilians. The actual fighting continued after the war ended. In Eastern Europe the fighting didn't stop until the early 50s. Some German soldiers refused to surrender as they knew what awaited them. The Czechs were particularly brutal and vicious to German, ethnic German civilians.

War is Hell.

The Czechs were mostly docile during the War...but from late 44' on they became more overt and active. From the moment Hitler killed himself and German units started to cross Böhmen- Mähren to cross back into the Reich the Czechs started sniping at German units....and rounding up and murdering Volksdeutsche that were being forced from their homes in the Sudetenland. It was horrific.

You need to use the proper term of ‘murdered’ not executed…

This makes those responsible as bad as those who oppressed them..two wrongs dont make a right.

There is no mercy for the looser...

When I was in Elementary school I had a teacher who represented herself as a Polish refugee, from the war, but her facial features were German not West Slavic In the mid 2000s I saw a brief film about her living out of the back of a caboose car somewhere in post war Germany it was 100 percent her, just younger. She was actually a Ethnic German from now polish territory ceded to Poland right after the war

Nothing in comparison to what the Red Army did to the German civilians when they entered East Prussia.

This guys reading style is just obscene. Like water torture. Couldn't finish.