Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Decrees of the President of the Republic (Czech: Dekrety presidenta republiky), more commonly known as the Beneš decrees, were a series of laws drafted by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile in the absence of the Czechoslovak parliament during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in World War II. They were issued by President Edvard Beneš between 21 July 1940 and 27 October 1945 and retroactively ratified by the Interim National Assembly of Czechoslovakia on 6 March 1946.The historical significance of the decrees, currently the subject of debate, is best known for the parts that dealt with the status of ethnic Germans, Hungarians and traitors in postwar Czechoslovakia. These decrees facilitated Article 12 of the Potsdam Agreement by laying national legal framework for loss of citizenship and expropriation of property of approximately three million Germans and Hungarians from lands that, for some, had been settled by their ancestors as far back as their invitation from the Czech king Otokar II in the 13th century or the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries.. }
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- Beneš_decrees abstract "Decrees of the President of the Republic (Czech: Dekrety presidenta republiky), more commonly known as the Beneš decrees, were a series of laws drafted by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile in the absence of the Czechoslovak parliament during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in World War II. They were issued by President Edvard Beneš between 21 July 1940 and 27 October 1945 and retroactively ratified by the Interim National Assembly of Czechoslovakia on 6 March 1946.The historical significance of the decrees, currently the subject of debate, is best known for the parts that dealt with the status of ethnic Germans, Hungarians and traitors in postwar Czechoslovakia. These decrees facilitated Article 12 of the Potsdam Agreement by laying national legal framework for loss of citizenship and expropriation of property of approximately three million Germans and Hungarians from lands that, for some, had been settled by their ancestors as far back as their invitation from the Czech king Otokar II in the 13th century or the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries.".