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The ones who stayed - The Germans in Prachatice and its surroundings after 1945
TOUŠEK, Filip
This bachelor thesis is concerned with the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and with the Germans who stayed there. In the first part, the situation in the whole Czechoslovakia is analysed. The thesis provides a description of the history of the German minority on the Czechoslovak territory from the establishment of the republic, which means from 1918, past the World War II and the following expulsion till the following period. Moreover, the thesis focuses on the reasons which enabled some Germans to stay in Czechoslovakia or even forced them to do so and on the subsequent development of their lives there. The second part of the thesis aims on the German minority in the district of Prachatice. The history of Germans in this district and the process of their expulsion are described. For the last part, three contemporary witnesses of the event have been interviewed in order for their life stories to be individually documented. To conclude with, the thesis presents a comparison of the similarities and differences of their fortunes.

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