Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft

Flag of the Sudeten, used by Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft

Traditional Convention of Sudeten German refugees (Sudetendeutscher Tag), arranged by Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft, 2010 in Augsburg

The Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft (English: Sudeten German Homeland Association) is an organization representing Sudeten German refugees from the Sudetenland. Most of them fled to West Germany from Czechoslovakia during the Expulsion of Germans after World War II.

The charter was signed in Stuttgart in 1950 and committed the organization to the renouncing of revenge and retaliation and promoting European accord. The organization tried to slow down the membership of today's Czech Republic in the European Union by demanding a complete revocation of the Beneš decrees which established the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia after the war.

The Landsmannschaft is currently based in Munich, Bavaria. Its chairman is Franz Pany. It is a member of the Federation of Expellees (Bund der Vertriebenen, BdV). Since pentecost 1950, the Landsmannschaft organized a traditional convention, the Sudetendeutscher Tag, which mostly took place in southern Germany.

Critics say that the Landsmannschaft only represents a small part of the Sudeten Germans.

External links

• Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft, branch in Germany (German)
• Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft in Österreich, branch in Austria (German)
• SL New York / SL USA
• Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft in Argentina (German),(Spanish)
• Sudetendeutscher-Tag.de (German)
• Sudetendeutschen Jugend, youth organization in Germany (German)
• Sudetendeutschen Jugend Österreichs, youth organization in Austria (German)
• Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft, Landesgruppe Bayern (German)