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Influence of the National Socialist regime on the aryanizations in the Czech lands and in Sovakia during the Second World War.
Palkosková, Kristýna ; Šafařík, Petr (advisor) ; Kubátová, Hana (referee)
This Bachelor thesis deals with anti-Jewish measurements in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and in the Slovak Republic during the Second World War. It analyses the relationship between the German Empire and two successors on the area of the Czech-Slovak Republic. The thesis aims to discover relationship between internal structure of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and the Slovak Republic and anti-Jewish measurements, which were implemented by national political representations or they were ruled by the Nazi Germany. In the case of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and the Slovak Republic the implementation of these measurements was combination of the initiative from national political representations and the influence of the German Empire.
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Holocaust Denial in the United States of America
Bašíková, Jaroslava ; Kubátová, Hana (advisor) ; Šafařík, Petr (referee)
The Holocaust denial is one of the manifestations of anti-Semitism in modern times, which emerged after the World War II in Western Europe. It soon expanded into the United States, where it due to the several factors it consequently gained momentum. In the seventies and eighties it reached its peak and the Institute for Historical Review, the most important organization of deniers, was founded. Holocaust deniers call themselves revisionists, followers of the tradition of the legitimate historical trend that emerged after the World War I. They declare their goal as the revision history, the search for historical truth and fight for freedom of speech. They utilize a means of pseudo and public biased academic work in order to discredit the Holocaust as a recognized historical fact. This bachelor thesis Holocaust denial in the United States aims to describe the historical development of the phenomenon of Holocaust denial and its basic characteristics in the USA. Another objective is to answer the question why Holocaust denial is so widespread in the United States and whether it is a serious social problem.
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Media Representation of the Bombing of Kosovo in 1999 in Slovak Newspapers
Záhoráková, Barbora ; Šafařík, Petr (advisor) ; Šindelář, Jan (referee)
Bachelor's thesis deals with media cover of NATO operation in 1999 in former Yugoslavia in Slovak journals SME and Slovak Republic. It examines news texts of journals from 25. 3. 1999 until 23. 4. 1999 by quantitative content analysis and analysis of objectivity and its violation. It tries to find out if mentioned journals informed about bombing of Kosovo objectively. Bachelor's thesis concerns with the conflict among Serbs and Albanians and aerial intervention of NATO, it characterizes a function of media and criterion of objectivity. It focuses on the political situation in Slovakia at the time of conflict as well. In the next part it goes through the analysis of chosen media and finds out that informing of journals SME and Slovak Republic was not in balance and showed the political favor.
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National Socialist culture politics: Change of German fine arts in 30s
Mojžíš, Radek ; Pelánová, Anita (advisor) ; Šafařík, Petr (referee)
This bachelor thesis examines a role of a cultural policy during 1933 and 1937 and its influence on Fine arts. It describes a link between a political power and culture. The thesis itself focuses not only on indiviual acts, but also presumptions creating National socialist cultural politics. The thesis consists of two main parts. The first introduces changes in society and art scene of Weimar Republik. The crucial moment was the Great Depression in 1929 and subsequent radicalization influencing both a society and culture. The rising influence later peaked in nazi's participation in Thuringian governemnt which enabled first attempts to regulate culture. The second part decribes the period after Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor. First bills affecting culture were passed and process of Gleichschaltung started. It also focuses on a role of institutions, associations and Hitler himself as cultural policy makers. Their main target was to eliminate modern art, which manifested in organizing a defamatory exhibition Entartete Kunst in 1937. At the same time Great German Art exhibition was held. Its main goal was to introduce artists of a new regime. In spite of these efforts, an attempt of creating new national socialist art failed.
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Lustration as a tool of political differentiaton in Czechoslovakia. Discourse analysis
Jírů, Veronika ; Kopeček, Michal (advisor) ; Šafařík, Petr (referee)
The topic of this piece of work is lustrations in Czechoslovakia, or more precisely a discourse on this issue, which was carried on the ground of the Federal Assembly (FS) of the Czechoslovak Federal Republic (CSFR) in 1991. The piece of work combines methods of a discourse analysis and an analysis of the political and historical background, where the discussion unfolded. The bases for the analysis are the stenographic entries of the FS of Czechoslovakia from January to August 1991, the period from the start of negotiations of the lustrations of the deputies of FS themselves, up until the adoption of the lustration law. For the purpose of conducting a detailed study, a narrower corpus was compiled, containing utterances of the main participants of the period. Selection of the participants was conducted according to a key that strives for taking into account the partisan, ideological and personal plurality of opinions of the former Federal Assembly. The aim of this piece of work is to document in compliance with the particular utterances both the development, or more precisely the emergence of the discourse of this issue, and the nascent of the political identities, which at that time (not only) due to the lustrations, were constituted.
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The American Media's Failure before the Iraq War in 2003
Sošťáková, Markéta ; Kozák, Kryštof (advisor) ; Šafařík, Petr (referee)
The bachelor's thesis The American Media's Failure before the Iraq War in 2003 deals with the media's uncritical coverage of the threat posed by Iraqi program of weapons of mass destruction. The thesis analyses American print media coverage in period after the attacks of September 11, 2001 until the beginning of the Iraq War in March 2003. It seeks to determine the cause of this major crisis in the history of American journalism The thesis is divided into three sections. The first part deals with intensive pro-war campaign under the Bush administration in an attempt to achieve political and social consent for the invasion to Iraq. The political marketing campaign consisted of the manipulation of WMD intelligence, escalation of rhetoric about the danger that Iraq posed to the United States and speculations about Iraqi support of terroristic organisations. The second section of the thesis is dedicated to a comparative content analysis of prewar coverage at The New York Times and newspapers published by The Knight Ridder. The final part traces the changes in American journalism in recent years. It explains how the quality of prewar coverage was influenced by these changes such as rising economic pressure, frequently quoted anonymous sources, unbalanced coverage in favor of the administration position...
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Christa Wolf and her book "Was bleibt" as a beginning of German-German literary confrontation and the reflexion in selected Czech media.
Bláhová, Jana ; Březinová, Monika (advisor) ; Šafařík, Petr (referee)
Aim of the thesis "Christa Wolf and her work "What Remains" as a start of German-German literature dispute and its resonance in the chosen Czech media" is to describe reception of the book "Was bleibt" from Christa Wolf accenting the socio-political context at the time of its publication and the immediate origination of the literature dispute between East and West Germany. Thesis discusses the grounds which led to begin of the dispute, as well as the process of the dispute and its main actors. Moreover, importance of the dispute and role of Christa Wolf and her work "Was bleibt" is sought. The first two chapters serve as an introduction to the literature dispute, where the first one concentrates more on the life and both social and political engagement of Christa Wolf, and the second one deals with her fundamental work "Was bleibt" and its context in the political situation at that time. The main part of the thesis discusses public responses to publication of the "Was bleibt", the origin and the process of the German-German literature dispute. Critiques of West German feulletonists, which started the literature dispute, are investigated in this part of the thesis too. The last chapter then addresses resonance of the dispute in selected Czech literary papers and magazines.
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First Generation of RAF in Selected Media
Janatková, Tereza ; Konrád, Ota (advisor) ; Šafařík, Petr (referee)
Bachelor thesis "First Generation of RAF in Selected Media" focuses on the doings of the first generation of the terrorist group Red Army Fraction in years 1970-77 a its reflection in the Czechoslovakian press. First part pays attention to historical development of German society in 60's and to the student movement of 1968. One whole chapter is than dedicated to biography of the first generation leaders. Following part describes then the activities of Red Army Fraction from its start until the death of the first generation members in Stammheim. Briefly will be also mentioned in this chapter the second and third generation of RAF and its final seize of activities. Final part analyses the level of information about activities of first generation in Czechoslovakia, in particular in daily journals "Rude pravo" and "Prace". Further will be also discussed the development of Czech press since 1948 and its evaluation.
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Czech-German Declaration in selected Czech and German daily newspapers
Bruner, Štěpán ; Handl, Vladimír (advisor) ; Šafařík, Petr (referee)
In this paper I study point of view of four czech and german newspapers and points of view of people, which they cement and that all in case of Czech-German Declaration. The studied newspapers are Czech Právo and MF Dnes and on the other side German Süddeutsche Zeitung and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. These will be compared i four time perionds: December 1996 - January 1997, May 1997, first and tenth anniversary of Declaration.
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Media Representation of NATO Operation "Allied Force" in Selected US Newspapers
Filipová, Vendula ; Šafařík, Petr (advisor) ; Weiss, Tomáš (referee)
This thesis examines coverage of NATO operation "Allied Force" in Yugoslavia, 1999 in US daily papers New York Times and Washington Post from March, 18th till April 16th, 1999. To evaluate media representation, the thesis uses qualitative discourse analysis. It focuses on coverage of key parties of the conflict and NATO operation, failure of Rambouillet Accords, explanation of launching NATO air campaign, intensifying air strikes and explanation of failure to reach the goals of the intervention. The paper argues that selected media has brought a biased coverage of the NATO operation and verifies a hypothesis whether the coverage could be defined as "propagandistic".
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