most liberal Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia, which still enjoys a reputation as the most liberal, democratic and “Western” state in interwar Eastern Europe (and styled itself the Switzerland of the East), launched a “colonization” scheme to populate the German territories with large Czech families. It also arbitrarily fired German civil servants, closed German schools and, in many cases, forcibly reclassified self-declared Germans as Czechoslovak citizens on the census in order to shrink the official size of the German minority. - A Brutal Peace: On the Postwar Expulsions of Germans

познавательная статья о том, что происходило в Центральной Европе сразу после войны.