Czechs, Germans and Austrians take part in reconciliation march commemorating violent post-war expulsions

On May 31st 1945, in the aftermath of WW II, some twenty thousand
German-speaking inhabitants of Brno were driven from their homes and forced
to walk the 50 km distance to the Austrian border. Close to 2,000 of them
died of exhaustion on the way. On Saturday some 250 people took part in the
10th annual Reconciliation March held in memory of those who suffered and
died in the wildcat expulsions of German-speaking inhabitants from the
border areas of post-war Czechoslovakia. Jaroslav Odstrčilík, the
organizer of the event, explains the significance of the undertaking.