76th Sudeten German Day in the Czech Republic

23 May 2026, Czech Republic, Pohorelice: Alexander Dobrindt, German Minister of the Interior, talks to a Czech participant before the start of the Reconciliation March from Pohorelice to Brno. The Reconciliation March follows the Brno Death March in reverse order, in which around 27,000 Germans were expelled from Brno after the Second World War. Thousands lost their lives. Thousands of Sudeten Germans leer más and their descendants have come to the Czech Republic more than 80 years after the expulsion to celebrate their traditional Whitsun gathering in their lost homeland for the first time. Photo: Michael Heitmann/dpa leer menos