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| | Sobaka :: By Any Other Name: Hungary, Apartheid and the Benes Decrees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | It is the shadow of the Benes decrees, dormant legislation passed in and after the last grim days of the Nazi regime, in which some (though not all) of the German minority in the Sudetenland and elsewhere had participated. |
 | | ONE MAY BE forgiven for suspecting, by the casual way the Benes Decrees are often disparaged by commentators, that many of those who write about the Decrees have never taken the trouble to read them. |
 | | In 1927, Eduard Benes explained to William Martin, a Swiss journalist, how he went about altering the ethnic composition of Czech towns and cities: 'The dominant power always has the means to modify the ethnic character of towns by stationing troops, civil servants, commerce, banks in them...we have done this... |
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