Sudeten Germans

National Minorities

Irma Müller as a young woman

Irma Müller

* 1926

Emigrant, Sudeten Germans, Victim of forced relocation

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories

Jaroslava Müllerová

* 1947

National minorities, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Sudeten Germans, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Erna Demuth in 1943

Erna Munzarová

* 1928

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Life along the Iron Curtain

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Hermina Musilová (1950)

Hermina Musilová

* 1928

National minorities, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Victim of forced relocation, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Repatriated and 5 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

contemporary photo from 1947

Dr. Walter Rochus Nachtigall

* 1931

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

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

The witness in the front left with her parents and siblings, Jezová, 1967

Marie Nedvědová

* 1960

Memory of vanished settlements, Sudeten Germans, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Farmer

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 3 more anniversaries

František Nejedlý

František Nejedlý

* 1931

National minorities, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 2 more anniversaries

Otakar Němec, right after the WWII

Otakar Němec

* 1935

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Sudeten Germans, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 29. 6. 1945 – Withdrawal from the Carpatho-Russia in favour of the USSR, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich

Alfred Neudörfer in the Memory of Nation studio

Alfred Neudörfer

* 1947

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

As a sixteen year old

Ing. Klement Neugebauer

* 1937

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia

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