The Church of Homecoming Commemoration of the Victims of the Benes Decrees in the Church of Homecoming. Sudeten Germans deported and slaughtered following the introduction of the Benes Decrees in Czechoslovakia were commemorated in the Church of Homecoming on Sunday, 27 June. The Benes Decrees came into force between 14 May and 27 October 1945. Out of the 143 discriminatory decrees, denouncing both...