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Melnik during the Thirty Years' War
Kilián, Jan ; Maur, Eduard (advisor) ; Ledvinka, Václav (referee) ; Korbelářová, Irena (referee)
The objective of this work has been to provide a comprehensive micro-analytical perspective on a small royal town in centra} Bohemia which has been influenced by its position in the landscape at the convergence of two of the most important rivers in the Czech Republic- the Vltava and Elbe rivers. The focus is on the years between 1618 and 1648, with considerable attention devoted to the developmental aspects of the pre-war and post-war periods. This has been made possible by the exceptional degree of preservation of the town archives, which in contrast to the archives of other Czech towns have not been affected by wide-spread document destruction or shredding. Consequently, the town has preserved for modem times a remarkable material legacy, literally offering the insatiated scholar an opportunity for detailed exploration. The analysis of these materials, primarily divided into books and official documents, has been the focus of attention right from the first chapter, supplemented by alternative sources that are housed in other locations in the Czech Republic. Subsequently, the reader is invited to observe the town of Mělník on the brink of a turbulent period, to become acquainted with its position, monuments, fortifications, the buildings within the town and in the surrounding areas, as well as its...
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Comparison of media agendas of the assassinations of Reinhard Heydrich and Adolf Hitler
Pavlis, Daniel ; Suk, Pavel (referee) ; Končelík, Jakub (advisor)
The diploma thesis "Comparison of media agendas of the assassinations of Reinhard Heydrich and Adolf Hitler" deals with research and description of entirely concrete press instructions application on a real content of legal Czech protectoral press. This process is the main object of research of two concretely defined eras (May, June 1942 and July, August 1944) and two particular media agendas (assassination of Reinhard Heydrich and Adolf Hitler). Based on a comparison between the press instructions and real media content, the diploma thesis describes mechanisms of press regulation and control of protectoral media on an example of daily newspapers "Národní politika". One part of the diploma thesis is this practical research which results from rich archive material of the National archive of the Czech Republic and from period press. The second part is a theoretical-historic context offering a brief overview of historic events which are important for the following research, and the theoretic minimum from the sphere of press regulation in totalitarian environment and in Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia as well. An integral part of the diploma thesis is also a very various and comprehensive appendix which creates another sheaf of this diploma thesis.
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Jews in the Protectorat and attempts of their rescure
Hlinovská, Květoslava ; Nosek, Bedřich (advisor) ; Arava-Novotná, Lena (referee)
This thesis is about modern Jewish history in the territory of Czechoslovakia, specifically the history of 2WW. It maps the fate of Jews under the new circumstances that had prevailed right after the declaration of the Protectorat of Bohemia and of Moravia, on the 15th of March, 1939. In keeping with those changes according to the new political system that was forcibly implemented, new and new anti-Jewish regulations were published with a view of total displacement of Jews from society and their total liquidation in compliance with Hitler's "final solution". It emphasizes some attempts to save Jews not only by "ordinary non-aryan people", but also by the Jewish resistance and last but not least by the government in exile. This work attempts to explain what led rescuers to their actions and their motivations, including some known rescuers, such as Nicholas Winton and Přemysl Pitter.
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Reinhard Heydrich and Final Solution of the Czech Question
Vrabcová, Klára ; Rataj, Jan (advisor) ; Martínek, Miloslav (referee)
The person of Reinhard Heydrich was one of those fateful to the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The first chapter of this paper attempts to prove that Heydrich's impact on the "Czech Question" is much greater than the eight months he spent in office as Deputy Reich Protector. It analyses different approaches to the solution of the Czech Question in Nazi plans and particularly, towards the end of the chapter, Heydrich's tendency towards one of these plans -- the memorandum of Secretary of State K. H. Frank. This memorandum anticipated two things: the temporary preservation of the Protectorate, the assimilation of people of suitable race and disposition and the expatriation of people of unsatisfactory race and of those opposing German rule. This thesis also attempts to prove that although Reinhard Heydrich planned the solution of Czech Question as a long-term process, the fulfilment of which could be considered only after a succesful war, he started the first steps already during the war. Great attention is given not only to his racial survey of the population, but also to his policy concerning Protectorate youth, who were meant to be caught up and reeducated within the Curatorium for the Education of Youth in Bohemia and Moravia. To ensure calm and economic health throughout the Protectorate, he applied his carrot-and-stick policy on the population. The occupation policy required a combination of short-term and long-term goals and application of the former to ensure the consequent accomplishment of the latter. The final chapter lays bare the reaction of the Czechoslovak foreign resistance to the situation in the Protectorate -- the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. This act was supposed to empower the Czech underground movement and improve the status of the exiled government among Allies. Even though this operation of the foreign resistance caused a torrent of arrests and executions within the Protectorate, its foremost effect was to draw the attention of the world and the Media and to excite Allied recognition for the Czech domestic resistance.
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Comparison of popular didactic weekly magazine for youth (Mladý hlasatel thirties/forties Vpřed forties/fifties)
Meravá, Tereza ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Suk, Pavel (referee)
Master's thesis "Comparison of popularly educational weekly youth magazines Mladý Hlasatel and Vpřed in 1930s through 1950s" contrasts two youth titles that were published around the WWII. Both titles, connected not only through the editor and father-like figure Jaroslav Foglar, were immensely popular in their time and constitute the phenomenon of journalism for children of that era. Both magazines were published during uneasy times, firstly during the dawn of the war and during the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; secondly, after ten years, during the rise of communists' influence and subsequent Communist coup d'état in 1948. This master's thesis follows my bachelor thesis "Mladý Hlasatel and it's authors" describing history, authors and specifics of this magazine. Master's thesis adds comparably detailed information about the magazine Vpřed, but its main objective is to compare the titles published in "free" era before the WWII and after it, and the ones that were published during the limited freedom of the press during the war and after the year 1948. This work seeks not only to compare the content, authors and information in both magazines, but also to comprehend the contemporary context of that era, observe the impact of ideological and political influences, as well as describe different...
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Antisemitism in Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Fabianová, Petra ; Rataj, Jan (advisor) ; Houda, Přemysl (referee)
The master thesis called "Antisemitism in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia" is describing, based on historical events, progress of solution of the Jewish question in the occupied Czech lands during the Second world war. In the first chapter the author describes the main events of the Jewish minority life in the protectorate. Jews had lost all their personal rights and discrimination in this regard was almost unbearable. German Nazism developed and at the same time realized "final solution" of the Jewish question. This term signified euphemistic name for the physical extermination of the Jewish nation. The second chapter devotes to the analysis of the press. The most important part of the whole thesis introduces three collaborationist periodicals from protectorate, which were chosen by author. They are called: Zteč (Assault), Árijský boj (Arya fight) and Národní politika (National politics). Construction of the Terezin concentration camp and subsequent life in it describes the last and the third chapter. This ghetto meant an important part of the whole Jewish question and its solution. Although the transports to eastern areas took place here, some Jews arranged better life through cultural activities and illegal educational activities. One of the specifics of Terezín was also the role that the camp played in the Nazi propaganda.
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Maecenases of Daniel Adam from Veleslavín
Stuchlíková, Marika ; Černá, Alena (referee) ; Čechura, Jaroslav (advisor)
In my study I focus on the persons who are the recipients of the book-dedications which were written by Daniel Adam from Veleslavín. This printer and writer owned one of the most significant and productive book-printer in the 16th Century Bohemia. I had tried to research the life stories of this persons, political careers, privat interests, religion and other factors which could be the reasons for this book-dedications. Not at last I was interested whether this persons had any personal relationship with the printer or whether they lived in the same social environment. The stories of book-dedications are accompanied by the picture of contemporary social and cultural lifestyle with the special focus on the book culture.
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Josef Holeček as a public and private person. Possibilities of intergrity of creative life.
SUDÍKOVÁ, Veronika
This presented diploma thesis introduces life of a writer Josef Holeček (1853 1929); born in Southern Bohemia. His literal and journalistic activities in Czech cultural environment stretch over 50 years of changing political climate; especially the emergence of the Czechoslovak Republic. The thesis aims to reconstruct the private and public life of the author in a more compact form, for it has been previously reported on in available resources only sparsely. First chapter introduces the childhood and student years of Josef Holeček. Subsequent chapters trace pursuit of writer career following author´s arrival to Prague and his family life. The second half of the thesis deals with contemporary perception of Josef Holeček by Czech cultural public in the Fin de Si?cle period regarding his literary works and public impact. Last chapter introduces the concept of ?Southern-Bohemian personality?; which was closely related to the publications and personality of Josef Holeček. This sociological conception conceived by Emanuel Chalupný helped to create the awareness of the author.
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Process of „aryanization" in the region of Kolín
Dudáš, Filip ; Szobi, Pavel (advisor) ; Dufek, Pavel (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with process of "aryanization" in the time of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia and it emphasizes the region of Kolín. The thesis is divided into two parts, the first one covers the mechanism of "aryanization", it describes by whom was it executed and who was the proffitent. The second analytical part deals with the "aryanization" in the Kolín's region which is characterised by the means of archive sources (State district archive in Prague, State District Archive in Plzeň, Security Services Archive in Prague, The National Archive in Prague). It describes life strory of the jewish family Morawetz and their "aryanizated" manor farm estate in Světlá nad Sázavou and Golčův Jeníkov. The study is completed with personal profile of the two officers, imposed administrator Werner Würfel and regional council president Wilhelm Hübner.
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Art and architecture of the Ethnographic exhibition 1895
Mědílková, Veronika ; Prahl, Roman (advisor) ; Machalíková, Pavla (referee)
Title of the thesis: Art and architecture of the Ethnographic exhibition 1895 The topic of the presented diploma thesis is the reconstruction of artist and item list presented on the Ethnographic exhibition of 1895, which was held in the premises of Holešovice Fairground in Prague from May 15 to September 28, 1895. Despite being one of the most important exhibition events held in Bohemia in the 19th Century (Jubilee Exhibition of 1891 - Ethnographic Exhibition of 1895 - Architecture and Engineering Exhibition 1898), it has not yet been systematically covered - not even from the history of art perspective. Based on the original material (leaflets, catalogues, guide-books) the thesis attempts to re- introduce the original public image of the exhibition and the character of the exposed items. The chapters of the thesis deal with the exhibition banner, the architecture (The Old Prague and Sample Village exhibitions), paintings, sculptures, commercial art (exhibition souvenirs). The thesis also attempts to trace the items and sketch their fate after the exhibition was over.
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