(Own report) — The Hun­gar­i­an Nation­al Assem­bly com­mem­o­rat­ed the post World War II “dis­fran­chise­ment and expul­sion of Hun­gar­i­an Ger­mans” on Novem­ber 16, with the pres­i­dents of the Ger­man and the Euro­pean par­lia­ments in atten­dance. The occa­sion was a con­fer­ence on the 60th anniver­sary of the relo­ca­tion of the eth­nic Ger­mans of Hun­gary. The con­fer­ence had been ini­ti­at­ed by the social demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­dent of the Hun­gar­i­an Par­lia­ment, Katal­in Szili. She sees the post war relo­ca­tion deci­sions, which were derived from the Pots­dam Con­fer­ence, as “doc­u­ments of shame”. She also rejects the Czech gov­ern­men­t’s Beneš Decrees and recent­ly called off a vis­it to Slo­va­kia, because, con­trary to Budapest — the par­lia­ment in Bratisla­va did not annul the 1945 relo­ca­tion deci­sions. Pre­ced­ing the Novem­ber 16 ses­sion, the Pres­i­dent of the Asso­ci­a­tion of Dis­placed Per­sons (Bund der Ver­triebe­nen BdV), Eri­ka Stein­bach, award­ed Szili with the asso­ci­a­tion’s Medal of Hon­or. Hop­ing to prof­it from the annul­ment of the post war order, Budapest is coop­er­at­ing with Berlin. Hun­dreds of thou­sands of mem­bers of the Hun­gar­i­an speak­ing minor­i­ty in Slo­va­kia are hop­ing for repa­ra­tions and resti­tu­tion if the Beneš Decrees are abro­gat­ed. The Ger­man-Hun­gar­i­an revi­sion­ist axis had been forged long before the 1989 upheaval and con­sol­i­dat­ed through gov­ern­ment accords. Its offen­sive against Poland, the Czech Repub­lic and Slo­va­kia is gain­ing momen­tum.