Germany

International

Contemporary witnesses from Germany

Tomáš Titze, Rumburk, about 1960

Tomáš Titze

* 1945 †︎ 2023

Germany, Déclassé, Political prisoner in WW2, Sudeten Germans, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 8 more anniversaries

Gertruda Turnová on a belt conveyor on the state farm in Království u Šluknova, 1963

Gertruda Turnová

* 1928

Foreigner living in Czechoslovakia before the year 1989, Refugee, Germany, Illegal border crossing, Memory of vanished settlements and 2 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Tuszyński Otton

Otton Tuszyński

* 1933

German minority in Poland after 1945, Germany

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 12.1.1945 - 13.2.1945 Vistula–Oder Offensive

Inge in 2016

Inge Urbassek

* 1933

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Germany

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Ivo Vendolsky, Prague 2021

Ivo Vendolsky

* 1933

Germany, National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans

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

Sieglinde Vendolsky in 2021

Sieglinde Vendolsky

* 1940

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Germany

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

Anna Alma Vespalec

Anna Alma Vespalec

* 1921 †︎ 2013

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Soutěž Příběhy 20. století, Germany

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

Jarmila Vítovská in 1947, 17 years old

Jarmila Vítovská

* 1930 †︎ 2024

Sudeten Germans, Germany, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945 and 1 more categories

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Josef Wagner in 2021

Josef Wagner

* 1937

Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Germany

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

Angelus Waldstein, 2021

Karel Albrecht (Angelus) Waldstein-Wartenberg

* 1931 †︎ 2023

Germany, Representative of the Church, Catholic clerical, Victim of forced relocation, Nobility

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring

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