Czechoslovakia. A pardon is approved for crimes committed against the Germans at the end of the war and in the immediate postwar period until October 28, 1945. It is difficult to estimate the number of Germans killed. They are in the tens of thousands. German sources speak of 18,889 registered murders. The Sudeten Germans speak of 250,000, but this is almost certainly an exaggeration. Czech historian Tomas Stanek estimates the number of Germans killed between 24,000 and 40,000.
