Speaker. in the days of May 20 till May 23. the Sudeten German Day is taking place in Cologne. Germany. The Sudeten German expellees who were forcibly deported from their centuriesold homeland in Bohemia and Moravia/Silesia by the Communists in 1945. constitute now the main part of the 13 .million of German expellees and refugees living now in the free West German Federal Republic. There were 3.3 million Sudeten Germans in their ancient homeland. over 2 million of them live now in West Germany. the rest in Austria and the Soviet Zone of Germanymany of them come again as refugees from the Soviet Zone to West Germany. The issue of the German expellees and refugees and of the Sudeten German expellees is not only an old one. but a very present. actual one. Thousands of new refugees from the Soviet Zone of Germany arrive daily in West Berlin and in West Germany. They are the main antiCommunist force in Germany and probably the world. They are an asset for anyone in the free world who wants to save human freedom. They are the antiCommunist wallin the same way as if half of the United States were occupied by the Reds and American antiCommunists would flee from the occupied zone to the still free territorythey would be the same antiCommunist wall as are the German expellees and refugees today. The Sudeten German expellees have always strived for the cooperation with conservative antiCommunist American statesmen in the Congress. They have. moreover. always striven for a close cooperation with the Czechs.
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