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Vera Kvizova-Jarosova (L), 81, a member of the Czech Communist party, expresses her disappointment 31 July 2005 at Edvard Benes bridge in Usti Nad Labem, after the mayor of the city unveiled the memorial plaque to Sudeten German victims from Usti nad Labem in July 1945. Exactly 60 years earlier, 31 July 1945 the German men, women and children, who lived in the town in the north of what was then Czechoslovakia, were attacked, beaten and thrown into the river. The mayor Gandalovic emphasised that the victims had been innocent people killed after the end of the war. Some 2.5 million Sudeten Germans were transferred from Czechoslovakia after the war under the decrees which then Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes issued and which the victorious powers approved at the Potsdam conference. Sign begins "I don't agree..." AFP PHOTO MICHAL CIZEK (Photo by MICHAL CIZEK / AFP) (Photo by MICHAL CIZEK/AFP via Getty Images)