The annual Sudetendeutscher Tag, a meeting of ethnic Germans expelled from Czechoslovakia after the Second World War and their descendants, will take place in the Czech city of Brno from May 22 to 25 as part of the Meeting Brno festival of reconciliation.
But the event has triggered protests and a parliamentary declaration warning against what some Czech lawmakers called "historical revisionism" and the "relativization of Nazi crimes."
"The Chamber of Deputies expresses its opposition to the holding of the 76th convention of the Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft [Sudeten German Association] on the territory of the Czech Republic, in view of the historical context and the fact that attitudes questioning the postwar settlement have long appeared within parts of this movement," read the declaration passed in the lower house of the Czech parliament on Friday.
The motion, which was symbolic and non-binding, passed by 73 votes to none, with four abstentions.
Boycott in parliament
