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"Mr President, the 1945 Potsdam Conference decided the expatriation of the ethnic German population living in the territory of Hungary, Poland and the former Czechoslovakia. Starting from 19 January 1946, 135 000 Germans had to leave Hungary – all of those who had stated in 1939 that their mother tongue was German. Almost half of them came from my constituency, and had to leave their home at the end of May and the beginning of June 1946.
Sixty years later, we are now remembering these forced expatriations in soul-stirring and touching commemorative events held in various locations. I would now like to pass on the central message given during these commemorations. Today, our most important task is to guarantee that events like those that took place sixty years ago will never happen again. One of the greatest human and political accomplishments of 21st-century Europe has been the creation of a common area of freedom and peace, where forced expatriations have been replaced by the free movement of people. The most important result is peace between European Union Member States, which forms the basis of all further results."@en1
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