Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II (81 page)

21

Article in
Práce,
14 July 1945, quoted in Petr Bena
ík, ‘Retribu
ní soudnictví a
eský tisk’, in V
decká Konference, p. 23.

22

Stan
k,
Odsun N
mc
,
p. 59.

23

Law reproduced as Annex 19 in Schieder, vol. IV:
Czechoslovakia,
p. 276.

24

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
, 4 April 1988. See also Sayer, p. 243.

25

See, for example, the website of the Zentrum gegen Vertreibungen,
www.z-g-v.de/english/aktuelles/?id=56#sudeten
, accessed 3 October 2011; Schieder, vol. IV:
Czechoslovakia,
p. 128; and MacDonogh, p. 159. Stan
k convincingly deconstructs such high figures,
Verfolgung 1945,
pp. 208—12.

26

See, for example, Nová
ek’s description of the ‘voluntary’ deportation of Germans from Brno, p. 31.

27

Stan
k,
Verfolgung 1945,
pp. 208—12.

28

Stan
k,
Retribu
ní,
pp. 24—5. The official figure for under-fourteens was 6,093, which Stan
k argues is an underestimate.

29

Maschke, vol. XV:
Zusammenfassung,
p. 197.

30

International Committee of the Red Cross, pp. 334, 336, 676; prisoners of war held by the French and American authorities were also forced to clear minefields, but civilians were never used. See also Stan
k,
Retribu
ní,
pp. 28, 37.