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Legal and socio-economic integration of ethnic Germans in Austria from 1945 to 1955
Štolová, Tereza ; Klípa, Ondřej (advisor) ; Konrád, Ota (referee)
The bachelor thesis focuses on the legal and socio-economic aspects of the integration of ethnic Germans in Austria during the years 1945-1955. The methodology of this work involved compiling available secondary sources, including historical studies, academic articles, books, and documents related to the integration of ethnic Germans in Austria during the aforementioned period. The thesis aims to answer how the displaced group of ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe was integrated into Austria's legal system and its socio- economic sphere. Ethnic Germans were not included in international law and refugee protection in the early post-war years by any of the organizations addressing these issues, leaving all integration efforts to the Austrian government. However, Austria began to identify itself as the first victim of Nazi Germany, relieving the government of legal and financial obligations towards displaced ethnic Germans. The Austrian government began addressing the issue of integrating ethnic Germans in 1950. The first impulse was the establishment of an advisory board for refugee issues at the Ministry of the Interior in August 1950. The initial agreements of the board served as a basis for improving the social and economic conditions in the lives of ethnic Germans. In the...
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Life in refugee camps in Bavaria after World War II.
Hypšová, Ilona ; Hnilica, Jiří (advisor) ; Koura, Petr (referee)
Title: Life in refugee camps in Bavaria after World War II. Author: Ilona Hypšová Supervisor: doc. PhDr. Jiří Hnilica, Ph.D. The bachelor thesis deals with life in refugee camps in Bavaria after the Second World War. To this end, the bachelor thesis asks several questions, including: "What was the situation in Central Europe, especially in Czechoslovakia and Germany between 1945 and 1955?", "For what reasons did people leave or flee Czechoslovakia?" and "What were their beginnings in the refugee camps? What was life like there?" The topic of escapes and emigration from Czechoslovakia is related to the post-war situation in both Czechoslovakia and Germany in the years 1945-1955 and it shows the complexity of the period in both countries. Czechoslovakia was slowly coming under the rule of the Communist Party, Germany lay in ruins and was initially divided between the four victorious powers: the USA, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and France. Immediately after the war, Sudeten Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia and subsequently displaced finding a place to stay in a destroyed Germany, primarily in Bavaria. The fleeing Germans are joined only a short time later by Czechoslovak refugees fleeing the newly established regime. They travelled to the United States or Australia, but the refugees...
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