Wehrmacht soldier

Veterans

Ernst Franke in 1957

Ernst Franke

* 1953

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Wehrmacht soldier

20. 6. - 29. 8. 1944 - Operation Bagration, 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

Hermann Frey, Pegnitz, 2020

Hermann Frey

* 1929 †︎ 2023

Illegal border crossing, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Wehrmacht soldier, Germany

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising

Contemporary portrait of Jan Gomola wearing the Wehrmacht uniform

Jan Gomola

* 1916 †︎ 2021

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Wehrmacht soldier, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 2. 10. 1938 - Poland's annexation of Teschen area, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Karel Gruber in 1941

Karel Gruber

* 1928 †︎ 2022

National minorities, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 3 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou

Jozef Gula (en)

Jozef Gula

* 1921 †︎ 2012

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, The Partisan, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 6 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Rudolf Hable during ski race, 1980s

Rudolf Hable

* 1947

National minorities, Forced labour during the WW2, Victim of forced relocation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 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, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 2 more anniversaries

Witness in Bohemia on her first bike wearing a blouse from Germany, 1959 or 1960

Sonja Hefele

* 1949

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

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Pavel Höchsmann wearing the uniform of the Auxiliary Technical Batallions.

Pavel Höchsmann

* 1927

People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Royal Air Force, Boy Scouts, Sokol and 6 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 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, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Josef Hofmann in the Wehrmacht, 1944

Private (ret.) Josef Hofmann

* 1926 †︎ 2011

National minorities, Memory of vanished settlements, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 4 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 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

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Eduard Hones

* 1937 †︎ 2014

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Wehrmacht soldier, Border Guards, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 and 1 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia

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