The specter of the Sudeten German lives on eighty years after the post-war expulsions began
Franz Schmeykal, a politician from Česká Lípa (Czech by birth, representative of the Bohemian Germans by political programme, liberal and loyal to the constitution, i.e. to Vienna), also tapped the stone. He did so from the position of the chairman of the Provincial Committee of the Kingdom of Bohemia, in fact as the highest-ranking representative of the state at the ceremony, when Governor Kellerberg and High Marshal Auerperg were absent. Although a larger-than-life statue was erected in his birthplace after his death, it was torn down in 1945 and transformed into a Red Army memorial, his mausoleum in the local cemetery served as a burial place for Red Army soldiers, and Schmeykal and other buried family members were buried in an unknown location.
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