German people were widespread all around Eastern Europe. But with all the horrors of the Second World War, they had been repatriated.
Yes, collective guilt is unacceptable even though one of the highest memberships of NSDAP (from the whole Reich) was in areas of Czechoslovakia where Germans were dwelling.
During the Czechoslovakia First Republic, the biggest party was the Sudeten German Party which not only collaborated with Nazi Germany but wanted the republic to cease its existence.
Were the Germans not expelled, the two variants were emerging. Either the territory would go to the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany or it would be a part of Czechoslovakia.
The first variant means it would have robbed the Czechs of their historic lands. The second one would have meant they would have been a hostile minority with either the Federal Republic of Germany (with puppeteers of France, Great Britain, and the USA) not causing a rift or Communists trying to Czechize the minority.
The deal is done no matter whether you have built up your house in 1937 and it is inhabited by someone else now. The excesses during the expulsion were inexcusable (it was a genocide) but the huge powers made the decision (about expulsion) and it is fait accompli now.
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