Germany

International

Contemporary witnesses from Germany

Horst Adler

Horst Adler

* 1944

Sudeten Germans, Germany

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Emil Baierl as a child

Emil Baierl

* 1933

Illegal border crossing, National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Memory of vanished settlements, Sudeten Germans and 2 more categories

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Hilda Bartáková (en)

Hilda Bartáková

* 1928

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, National minorities, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), Wehrmacht soldier and 2 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 7.10.1949 - Creation of the German Democratic Republic and 1 more anniversaries

Ivan Beneš after graduation, Prague, 1971

RNDr., CSc. Ivan Beneš

* 1948

Germany, Environmentalist, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Scientist, Life along the Iron Curtain

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 20. 11. – 3. 12. 1952 – Rudolf Slánský’s trial and 4 more anniversaries

Helmut Bernert as a child in Opava

Helmut Bernert

* 1935

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Germany

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Johann Böhm in 2019

Johann Böhm

* 1938

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Germany

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Robert Böhm, Neukirchen 2019

Robert Böhm

* 1932

Illegal border crossing, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Germany

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Franz Braun during his military service

Franz Braun

* 1931

Germany, National minorities, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Siegfried Buchholz young.jpg (historic)

Siegfried Buchholz

* 1939

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Victim of forced relocation, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), Germany

1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 7.10.1949 - Creation of the German Democratic Republic, 17.6.1953 - Uprising of 1953 in East Germany, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 3.10.1990 - Reunification of Germany

Sibylle Buhn 2.jpg (historic)

Sibylle Buhn

* 1965

National minorities, German minority in Romania, Leaving of Romania by the German minority, Germany

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 16. 12. 1989 - 24-25. 12. 1989 - The Romanian revolution

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