"Dans ce volet : pendant des siècles, les Allemands de la région des Sudètes ont cohabité pacifiquement avec leurs voisins tchèques, jusqu’à l’entre-deux-guerres et la création de la Tchécoslovaquie. https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/097503-001-A/l-expulsion-des-allemands-de-tchecoslovaquie-1-2/?fbclid=IwAR3X9lBhmcv9w6_k5Sb73rDVVVCixZojM-J4bJJWV-qiLdRcZockSwGUmnw

Mais les atrocités commises par les Allemands pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale conduiront, en réaction, à l’expulsion par les Tchécoslovaques de l’essentiel de cette minorité germanophone, qui vivait là depuis le Moyen Âge. "

And yet again we have the construction that the 'expulsions' were the result of WW2 and subsequent to them, neatly ignoring the origins of 'forced populations removals' far earlier and as Nazi policy from 1939 onwards

Also ignores forced population movement as a technique of imperial control and a part of the Munich Agreement 1938

Far wider usage than within a narrow European nationalistic context, in North America, across the Americas, Africa and of course Imperial Russian and USSR.

This is not in any way to excuse or legitimise such brutal methods, but they did not 'magically' first occur in 1945.

Yet this is exactly the narrative being repeated here and in many other places such as Applebaum's Iron Curtain, part 1, ch 6: 'Ethnic Cleansing'

As to be expected this approach seeks to lay the blame exclusively on the communists for the forced removals, or of using them to generate support, trigger takeovers, but this neatly ignores extensive western public discussions about this issues from as early 1940 onwards