Benes Decrees

GPTKB entity

Statements (49)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:government_agency
gptkb:law
gptkbp:appliesTo gptkb:Sudeten_Germans
gptkb:Hungarian_minority
collaborators with Nazis
gptkbp:controversy human rights
property restitution
collective guilt
gptkbp:country gptkb:Czechoslovakia
gptkbp:effect expulsion of ethnic Germans and Hungarians
loss of citizenship for ethnic Germans and Hungarians
legal basis for postwar population transfers
redistribution of confiscated property
confiscation of property from ethnic Germans and Hungarians
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Benes Decrees
gptkbp:issuedBy gptkb:Edvard_Beneš
gptkb:Czechoslovak_government-in-exile
gptkbp:legalChallenge international criticism
European Court of Human Rights (various cases)
gptkbp:legalStatus still valid in Czech Republic (as of 2024)
gptkbp:mainLanguage Czech
Slovak
gptkbp:namedAfter gptkb:Edvard_Beneš
gptkbp:numberOfDecrees 143
gptkbp:opposedBy gptkb:Austria
gptkb:Germany
gptkb:Hungary
gptkbp:period gptkb:World_War_II
post-World War II
gptkbp:publicationDate 1940s
gptkbp:relatedEvent expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia
postwar retribution in Czechoslovakia
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Munich_Agreement
gptkb:Potsdam_Agreement
gptkb:Edvard_Beneš
Czechoslovak history
Central European history
expulsion of Germans after World War II
Czech Republic law
European Union law (debates)
Slovak Republic law
gptkbp:subject confiscation of property
expulsion of Hungarians
loss of citizenship
expulsion of Germans
gptkbp:supportedBy gptkb:Czech_Republic
gptkb:Slovakia
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Third_Republic_of_Czechoslovakia
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6