The Transfer of the Sudeten Germans
Author : Radomír Luža
Publisher : [New York] New York University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 24,58 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Czech Republic
ISBN :
Author : Radomír Luža
Publisher : [New York] New York University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 24,58 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Czech Republic
ISBN :
Author : R. M. Douglas
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 48,93 MB
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0300183763
The award-winning history of 12 million German-speaking civilians in Europe who were driven from their homes after WWII: “a major achievement” (New Republic). Immediately after the Second World War, the victorious Allies authorized the forced relocation of ethnic Germans from their homes across central and southern Europe to Germany. The numbers were almost unimaginable: between 12 and 14 million civilians, most of them women and children. And the losses were horrifying: at least five hundred thousand people, and perhaps many more, died while detained in former concentration camps, locked in trains, or after arriving in Germany malnourished, and homeless. In this authoritative and objective account, historian R.M. Douglas examines an aspect of European history that few have wished to confront, exploring how the forced migrations were conceived, planned, and executed, and how their legacy reverberates throughout central Europe today. The first comprehensive history of this immense manmade catastrophe, Orderly and Humane is an important study of the largest recorded episode of what we now call "ethnic cleansing." It may also be the most significant untold story of the World War II.
Author : Philipp Ther
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 35,70 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742510944
After World War II, some 12 million Germans, 3 million Poles and Ukrainians, and tens of thousands of Hungarians were expelled from their homes and forced to migrate to their supposed countries of origin. Using freshly available materials from Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Czechoslovak, German, British, and American archives, the contributors to this book provide a sweeping, detailed account of the turmoil caused by the huge wave of forced migration during the nascent Cold War. The book also documents the deep and lasting political, social, and economic consequences of this traumatic time, raising difficult questions about the effect of forced migration on postwar reconstruction, the rise of Communism, and the growing tensions between Western Europe and the Eastern bloc. Those interested in European Cold-War history will find this book indispensable for understanding the profound--but hitherto little known--upheavals caused by the massive ethnic cleansing that took place from 1944 to 1948.
Author : Václav Houžvička
Publisher : Karolinum Press, Charles University
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,6 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Czech Republic
ISBN : 9788024621449
Vaclav Hou vi ka describes the development of the Czech-German national controversies from the mid-19th century, through the establishing of the CzechoslovakRepublic in 1918, to the beginning of the 21st century. He focuses mainly on the tragic end of the nations' coexistence in 1938-1945 and the following development of different Czech and German reflections on the reasons for the removal of Germans from the CzechoslovakRepublic after 1945 in the latter part of the 20th century. A detailed explanation of Czech, German and Sudeten-German concepts is rendered in detail and coherently within the international and social-economic context of the 20th century. "
Author : Arbeitsgemeinschaft zur Wahrung Sudetendeutscher Interessen
Publisher : München: Die Arbeitsgemeinschaft
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 10,55 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Germans
ISBN :
Author : Radomír Luz̆a
Publisher :
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 42,33 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Czechoslovakia
ISBN :
Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 50,99 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0451472187
In this alternative history, Joe Steele takes the place of Franklin D. Roosevelt to become the U.S. President leading the country out of the Great Depression. The reforms he puts in place get citizens back to work, but Steele's critics end up in work camps if they complain too much about the policies.
Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 20,95 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Law
ISBN :
Author : Francis Dostál Raška
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 16,89 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Czechoslovakia
ISBN :
Author : P. E. Caquet
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 21,51 MB
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1590510526
Drawing on a wealth of previously unexamined material, this staggering account sheds new light on the Allies’ responsibility for a landmark agreement that had dire consequences. On returning from Germany on September 30, 1938, after signing an agreement with Hitler on the carve-up of Czechoslovakia, Neville Chamberlain addressed the British crowds: “My good friends…I believe it is peace for our time. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.” Winston Churchill rejoined: “You have chosen dishonor and you will have war.” P. E. Caquet’s history of the events leading to the Munich Agreement and its aftermath is told for the first time from the point of view of the peoples of Czechoslovakia. Basing his work on previously unexamined sources, including press, memoirs, private journals, army plans, cabinet records, and radio, Caquet presents one of the most shameful episodes in modern European history. Among his most explosive revelations is the strength of the French and Czechoslovak forces before Munich; Germany’s dominance turns out to have been an illusion. The case for appeasement never existed. The result is a nail-biting story of diplomatic intrigue, perhaps the nearest thing to a morality play that history ever furnishes. The Czechoslovak authorities were Cassandras in their own country, the only ones who could see Hitler’s threat for what it was, and appeasement as the disaster it proved to be. In Caquet’s devastating account, their doomed struggle against extinction and the complacency of their notional allies finally gets the memorial it deserves.