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Original title:
Consequences of post-war ethnically based population exchange in the Czech borderland for the regional development
Authors:
Vaishar, Antonín ; Dvořák, Petr ; Nosková, Helena ; Zapletalová, Jana Document type: Papers Conference/Event: Moravian Conference on Rural Research /3./, Brno (CZ), 2012-09-03 / 2012-09-07
Year:
2012
Language:
eng Abstract:
About 3,1 millions of Germans lived in Czechoslovakia in 1930s forming the biggest ethnical minority. This minority almost completely disappeared as a consequence of the WWII. About 300-500 thousands of them were killed in the war as soldiers of German military forces. Some dozens of thousands were killed by the Nazi regime (anti-Nazi and German Jews), about 300 thousands fled on the base of Hitler´s command, about 20-30 thousands were killed or died within "wild displacement". The majority (2,1 million) were transferred into individual occupation zones in Germany. Only established anti-Nazis, people from mixed matrimonies and indispensable experts in economic branches were allowed to stay.Excluding big cities and some inner enclaves, the majority of German population was transferred from the borderland. Before the WWII, almost all the borderland of Bohenia and Moravia was formed by German speaking regions.
Keywords:
Czech borderland; population exchange; regional development Project no.: 2D06001 (CEP) Funding provider: GA MŠk Host item entry: Multifunctional Rural Development, ISBN 978-80-7375-642-0
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