Why Germany should recapture Sudetenland?

In the twentieth Century there are two major exodus of people. One is from Palestine where Jews expelled close upon one million Arabs in 1948. The other is Slavs of Czechoslovakia expelled roughly 3 million Germans from Sudetenland in 1945. Let me give a briefing on the German expulsion:

Germany was too weak at that time having been defeated and devastated in the aftermath of WWII. The expulsion of Germans from Sudetenland was in a manner of speaking, sanctioned by the victorious allies Britain, America and the Soviet Union at the Potsdam Conference citing outwardly the necessity to create ethnically homogeneous states to prevent future conflicts. Inwardly, they wreaked vengeance over the innocent Germans living in the Sudetenland. Taking a cue from this, Edvard Benes who was the President of Czechoslovakia at that time, issued the infamous Benes Decrees that stripped Germans living in Sudetenland their citizenship along with their property rights leading ultimately to their forced expulsion.

Let me give my reasons as to why Germany should recapture Sudetenland now!

1. German citizens who were expelled lost their homeland called Heimat. They were never compensated for their loss of citizenship and/ or properties gabbed by the Slavs. This rank injustice has no parallel in the recent history of European affairs. Even after being naturalized in Germany proper the victims still yearn for returning home to Sudetenland.

2.  The post war Germany had to carry the burden of collective guilt for causing WWII, or so it seems, due to continuous propaganda by the victorious allies who unable to get at Adolf Hitler had pleasure in bashing the average Germans for being once part of the Third Reich.

3. The ruling elite in Germany wish to play ball with their western allies by persuading the grieving Germans to forget the past and accept the current situation of being stripped of rightful ownership of Sudetenland as de facto matter and urging the German nation as a whole to move out of any personal feeling of loss

4. In German political scene, EU is portrayed as providing a platform of borderless Europe and the connectivity arising from this is painted as a better compensation for losing Sudetenland.

5. Geoeconomics makes it crystal clear that Sudetenland is vital for Germany, in sustaining the use of assets, economic growth and the living space called as Lebensraum. Both Northern Bohemia and Northern Moravia are vital conduits for industrial expansion whereas. Sudeten Mountain gives strategic depth.

6. Abundant resources in lignite mines, coal & steel, clay & glass, textiles mark Sudetenland as a coveted price that cannot be lost to the Slavs. Moreover, once populated by 90% of Germans Sudetenland must be brought in as German possession.

The Fuhrer was right in 1938 by annexing Sudetenland in accordance with the terms of Munich Agreement. Friedrich Merz led German ruling coalition must “navigate strategy amid geoeconomics” and move ahead in the process of recapturing Sudetenland from the Slavs ASAP!

 

Cheers!

 

Muthu Ashraff Rajulu

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