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"Transfer" of Germans and Postoloprty in 1945
Smudková, Tereza ; Míšková, Alena (advisor) ; Nováková, Tamara (referee)
The theoretical part of the bachelor's thesis ""Transfer" of Germans and Postoloprty in 1945" is devoted to the relations between Czechs and Germans in the pre-war period and their outcome after the Second World War, i.e. the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia. The second part of the thesis - the practical part - is focused on a specific area (the municipality of Postoloprty) in which the acts of violence against the German population took place. In this part the thesis is mainly based on the work with testimonies of witnesses who were willing to share their experiences and memories. The final part of the thesis is devoted to the investigation from 1947 and finally the thesis deals in brief with the modern investigation. Keywords: relations, Munich Agreement, Sudetenland, Potsdam Conference, expulsion, Postoloprty, witnesses, investigation, the press
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Max Egon zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg and Czechoslovakia
Kozlová, Tereza ; Horčička, Václav (advisor) ; Županič, Jan (referee)
The thesis analyses prince Max Egon Hohenlohe-Langenburg's relationship to Czechoslovak Republic from its origin to year 1945. It focuses on the issues of prince's role in Czechoslovak politics and his attitudes to all the situations which affected the aristocracy in the 20th century in ČSR - land reform, Sudeten crisis and postwar turn of events. In the first chapter the thesis concentrates on foundation of ČSR and its impact on aristocracy and thus also on prince Max Egon at the time. The second chapter deals with consequences of land reform on property of Hohenlohe-Langenburg's House, the third chapter is about Sudeten German crisis and prince Max Egon's role in it. The last chapter shows aristocracy's situation after year 1945. The author comes to conclusion that the personality of prince Max Egon was very ambiguous - he always tried to get on well with everybody in effort to gain personal profit, and for fear that he could not keep his property in the extent that he had had since the time Hohenlohe- Langenburg's family settled down in current Czech border. Keywords Max Egon zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Czechoslovakia, Munich agreement, World War II, Sudetenland
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Buck-passing: A Theoretical Framework and Case Studies on the Munich Crisis and the Korean War
Wen, Tai-Yun ; Kofroň, Jan (advisor) ; Romancov, Michael (referee)
Buck-passing, an increasingly prominent concept to explain states' foreign policy, suffers from inconsistency in both theory and application. This thesis proposes a revised theoretical framework of buck-passing, which is established on the distinguishment of three images of buck-passing-intent, action, and outcome. The conceptualization of buck-passing, in contrast to other strategies, should center the image of outcome because buck-passing is a strategy that intrinsically involves three parties, and its outcome cannot be fulfilled unilaterally. The revised framework also challenges the traditional consensus that no buck-passing occurs under bipolarity, arguing that the regional great power is possible to stop a superpower's aggression in a limited war. In the case of the Munich Crisis, the involved great powers, except for bandwagoning Italy, adopted the buck- passing strategy at the end, leading to the signature of the Munich Agreement as the outcome of appeasement, where no collective good as checking aggression was provided. In the case of the Korean War, while facing the US aggression in a bipolar world, although the Soviet Union refused to engage in, China caught the buck and militarily intervened in the Korean Peninsula. The discrepancy between the Chinese and the Soviet policies was...
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Vimperk in 1938 - 1945
Dalíková, Jana ; Skopek, Robert (advisor) ; Koura, Petr (referee)
The aim of this diploma thesis is to introduce Vimperk between the years 1938 and 1945. The work is based on the study of the archival documents in the relevant archives in the Czech Republic and on the articles in the regional volumes. The first part of this work contains the literature and archival sources used in this work. The introduction of the history of the town until 1938 and the World War II follows. These are supplemented with the basic pieces of information about the history of World War II. Without that it would not be possible to set this small town into a wider context. The main part of this work is to elaborate the way of life in Vimperk during these years, which is mostly based on the study of the archival documents. The majority of people in this area were Germans. In 1938 was the area called "Sudetenland" anexed to the Hitler's Germany. Then followed the World War II and the men from this region had to join the German army, many of them didn't survive until the end of the war. The conditions of life of the civilians got worse with the time. In the end of the war there were also thousands of refugees, who also needed help. Public affairs in the town reduced more and more on keeping the state, everything was controlled by the Nazi organisations. As the front line was getting...
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Bi-party political system in Czech lands 1938-1939: National Union Party and the National Labour Party
Kulíšek, Vítězslav
The rigorosum thesis deals with Czech political system in the second Czechoslovak Republic (1938-1939). In this historically short period, liberal democracy has changed into an authoritative democracy. The power of the right-wing parties prevailed in the political system. In the case of Czech countries a bi-party political system, which is unique in Czech history, has been created. The main aim of the rigorosum thesis is to describe the political party system in the Czech lands in the Second Republic period, and to look at the political parties that formed it. It also deals with the Second Republic in general, with the historical, economic, cultural and social context of that time. In the final part, there are summarized all the conclusions I came to. The sources were mainly archive sources, specialized literature dealing with the subject and political party periodicals but even non-political periodicals from that time. KEYWORDS Antonín Hampl, authoritarian democracy, Czech-Slovak Republic, Second Republic, Bi-party political system, Munich agreement, Nazi Germany, National Labour Party, Rudolf Beran, National Union Party
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Bi-party political system in Czech lands 1938-1939: National Union Party and the National Labour Party
Kulíšek, Vítězslav
The rigorosum thesis deals with Czech political system in the second Czechoslovak Republic (1938-1939). In this historically short period, liberal democracy has changed into an authoritative democracy. The power of the right-wing parties prevailed in the political system. In the case of Czech countries a bi-party political system, which is unique in Czech history, has been created. The main aim of the rigorosum thesis is to describe the political party system in the Czech lands in the Second Republic period, and to look at the political parties that formed it. It also deals with the Second Republic in general, with the historical, economic, cultural and social context of that time. In the final part, there are summarized all the conclusions I came to. The sources were mainly archive sources, specialized literature dealing with the subject and political party periodicals but even non-political periodicals from that time. KEYWORDS Antonín Hampl, authoritarian democracy, Czech-Slovak Republic, Second Republic, Bi-party political system, Munich agreement, Nazi Germany, National Labour Party, Rudolf Beran, National Union Party
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Reflections of the Munich Agreement in the illegal anti-Nazi magazine "V boj"
Budská, Eva ; Kučera, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Šmidrkal, Václav (referee)
This thesis deals with the magazine V boj's reflection of the Munich Agreement. This journal was published illegally in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia from May 1939 to spring 1941. V boj was a part of the resistance standing up for Beneš. This academic work will show the immediate reactions of contemporaneous Czech and foreign authors to the Munich Agreement. A content analysis examines three concrete and distinct paradigms associated with the Munich Agreement. The first paradigm reflects the Agreement of Munich as a betrayal of western countries. The second is the amount of Beneš's responsibility for this event. The third contends that this agreement reflects the collapse of Czechoslovak democracy. V boj allows one not only to look closer at the so-called civic groups, but also to examine the prints published by the military resistance organization Obrana národa (Defence of the Nation). The thesis follows the general knowledge of the V boj's content presented by its reprint, done by Růžena Hlušičková and her collective.
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The Way to Prague Treaty
Mentlík, Petr ; Nigrin, Tomáš (advisor) ; Kučera, Jaroslav (referee)
The thesis is dealing with the circumstances in which the Treaty on Mutual Relations between the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany, known as the Prague Treaty, was negotiated and concluded in the early 1970s. The main focus of the thesis is the chapter on the Way to the Prague Treaty, which contains an analysis of negotiations on the text of the Prague Treaty, where the biggest obstacle was disagreement over the invalidity of Munich Agreement, as well as questions about importance of some treaty provisions for West Berlin, signing the treaty in Prague in December 1973 and finally even the process of ratification of the treaty in both states. The analysis of the ratification process consisting mainly in the negotiation of a treaty in the legislative bodies of both states is based mainly on primary sources, parliamentary papers and stenoprotocols. Complicated was discussion in the Federal Republic, when deputies of opposition (CDU/CSU) in Bundestag spoke against the treaty and Bundesrat voted against the treaty even two times. The treaty was approved unanimously in Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia, nevertheless speeches of each deputies was used mainly for proclamation of own interpretation of some provisions of the treaty. It can be stated that the Prague Treaty...
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Image of the Other - Czechs in German Carricatures
Raková, Pavlína ; Emler, David (advisor) ; Filipová, Lucie (referee)
The thesis focuses on the image of Czechs in German caricatures. The image of Czechs is researched on caricatures through historical timeline consisting of milestones of Czech- German relationship. The first chapter focuses on Czech-German tension from times of Badeni's language ordinances to Ann's patents. Furthermore, the image of Czechs is investigated in period of Great War. The focus is primarily on the rise of independent Czechoslovakia because main hypothesis states that the image of Czechs was intensified after this event. The next researched time period is year 1933 as Nazi party took over. The last researched period is time period 1937-1939. The focus is on death of T. G. Masaryk. The thesis is complemented by Austrian caricatures which aim to extend the image of Czechs by Austrian view. The Austrian image of Czechs is then compared to German one. Analysis is made through image analysis of German and Austrian caricatures. The research is done on 35 historical caricatures and is supported by secondary literature. The caricatures were picked from major satirical-humoristic magazines such as Simplicissimus, Kladderadatsch, Fliegende Blätter, Kikeriki and Figaro.
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