The 19th of January will be a national day of remembrance for Hungary’s ethnic Germans who were forcibly expelled from the country after the Second World War, Parliament decided on Monday. This is the date when the first trainload of Schwabs and other settled Germans rolled west. Poland and Czechoslovakia also expelled their German minorities following a call for the Orderly transfer of German Populations in the Allies’ Potsdam Agreement of 1945. Czechoslovakia also kicked out tens of thousands of ethnic Hungarians because Hungary had entered the war as an ally of Nazi Germany.
