Germany

International

Contemporary witnesses from Germany

Fritz Kraus

Friedrich Kraus

* 1933

Sudeten Germans, Germany

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

Rosemarie as a child

Rosemarie Kraus

* 1941

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, GDR - outgoing passengers, Relatives of important personalities, Sudeten Germans and 2 more categories

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

Editha Wurstová in 1948

Editha Krejčová

* 1930 †︎ 2022

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Waltraud Kriegisch in March 2012

Waltraud Kriegisch

* 1927 †︎ 2015

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Germany

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Heidrun as a young girl

Heidrun Kuchler

* 1939

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Memory of vanished settlements, Sudeten Germans, Germany

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

Bedřich Kudláč

* 1927

Wehrmacht soldier, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, GDR - outgoing passengers, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), Soutěž Příběhy 20. století and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Wolfgang Kupferschmidt

Wolfgang Kupferschmidt

* 1938

Sudeten Germans, Germany

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

Peter Linhart as a boy in Nejdek

Professor, Dr. Peter Linhart

* 1938

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

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

Otokar Löbl during Eye Direct recording in Prague, 2022

Otokar Löbl

* 1950

Germany, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Journalist, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Sudeten Germans

1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Children in Nýrsko after the war (Johann with the hatchet)

Johann Löffelmann

* 1939

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

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