Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft

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The Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft ({{langx|en|Sudeten German Homeland Association}}; {{Langx|cs|Sudetoněmecké krajanské sdružení}}) is an organization representing Sudeten German expellees and refugees from the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia. Most of them were forcibly expelled and deported to western Allied occupation zones of Germany, which would later form West Germany, from their homelands inside Czechoslovakia during the expulsion of Germans after World War II. Many settled in Bavaria.{{Cite news |last=Pösl |first=Thomas |date=19 May 2024 |title=Sudetendeutscher Tag in Augsburg im Zeichen von Europa |url=https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/sudetendeutscher-tag-in-augsburg-im-zeichen-von-europa,UDDtbId |access-date=2024-07-31 |work=BR24 |language=de}}

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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 and declared them unlawful.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}

The association is currently based in Munich, Bavaria. Its chairman is Bernd Posselt. It is a member of the Federation of Expellees (Bund der Vertriebenen, BdV). Since Pentecost of 1950, the Landsmannschaft has organized a traditional convention, the {{ill|Sudetendeutscher Tag|cs|Sudetoněmecký den|de|}}, which mostly takes place in southern Germany, in Augsburg or Nuremberg. In 1950 the Homeland Association already vowed to reject any form of violence and revenge.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}

The association observes the annual Sudeten German Day with a festival celebrating their culture. It also has local and district chapters which undertake various activities, such as developing and taking exhibitions about the expulsion to schools.{{Cite news |date=8 July 2024 |title=Heidi Hötschel führt Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft in Aichach |trans-title=Sudetendeutscher Tag in Augsburg im Zeichen von Europa |url=https://www.donaukurier.de/lokales/landkreis-aichach-friedberg/heidi-hoetschel-fuehrt-sudetendeutsche-landsmannschaft-in-aichach-16524230 |access-date=2024-07-31 |work=Donaukurier |language=de}}

In 2024, the Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft awarded former European Union president Jean-Claude Juncker its Charlemagne Prize, for his advocacy of a just international order in Central Europe.