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Nazi Occupation of the Czech Frontiers and Czech Lands
Pakandl, Josef ; Tretera, Jiří Rajmund (advisor) ; Horák, Záboj (referee)
The thesis deals with impact of the Nazi occupation on the church administration. The aim is to describe as thoroughly as possible the results of the occupation of the Czech borderland as well as remaining area Bohemia and Moravia for the church administration and also to touch some other questions related to this theme. I chose this topic because of my interest in history. The issues of churches and religion societies are also close to me. During writing Master's degree thesis I studied special literature and I visited bishopric in České Budějovice and National archive. The work is divided into nine chapters. The first chapter deals with the occupation of the Czech borderland by German army and subsequent government at this region. The second chapter describes the impact of the occupation on the Roman Catholic Church administration, namely administration in individual dioceses, commissariats of Wroclaw archdiocese on the Czech territory, attempts to fill the vacancy of diocesan bishops from the part of the Apostolic See and consequences for the structure of congregations. The third chapter outlines German church politics and its impact on the church life in the occupied borderland, especially relationship of believers to the national issue, German steps aimed against churches, persecution of...
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The Life and Work of Vlasta Fialová, actress of Brno
Břeň, Martin ; Čechura, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Beneš, Zdeněk (referee)
The Life and Work of Vlasta Fialová, actress of Brno This master's thesis is to bring closer the life and work of one of the most prominent Czech artists of the 20th century. The actress, who wrote herself into the history of film, television productions and radio, but especially the theater that was everything for her. The work is trying to capture her life and career, she has been able to build for a long, active fifty-year period, only in three Moravian cities: Opava, Olomouc and Brno. The work maintains a line beginning in the period before her birth, focuses on the cultural and historical events of the Brno metropolis, the beginning of her life, the years of childhood and adolescence, which she experienced as a student of a grammar school and a musical drama department of the Brno Conservatory during the Nazi occupation of her hometown. And then emphasis is placed on her individual theatrical engagements, as well as on the films and TV productions in which she performed, and the programs recorded for the radio. It also presents a certain reflection and characteristic of the characters and the acting art of this unique actress, whether it is a stage character or a silver screen. From those she created as a fresh and very talented graduate of the Conservatoire, through very handsome women with...
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Comparison of Motivation and the Course of Collaboration in Lithuania and Latvia
Žabková, Marie Magdalena ; Švec, Luboš (advisor) ; Vykoukal, Jiří (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the issue of collaboration in Lithuania and Latvia - specifically the motivation and course of collaboration of part of the population during the Second World War with the Nazi regime. In both Baltic countries, over 90% of the original Jewish population has been exterminated and most of it by the end of 1941. Collaboration has affected the extent and speed of implementing the final solution of the Jewish question in the Baltics. The first part is devoted to the political-historical context with regard to the Holocaust in both countries. This section discusses the circumstances that had a clear impact on the Baltic society, namely pre-war anti-Semitism, Soviet occupation and Nazi occupation. In the next part, the thesis analyzes pogroms, functioning of collaborative units and their structure. The last part focuses on motives that have been significantly reflected in society in Lithuania and Latvia. The thesis concludes that the Baltic countries differed in the level of pre-war anti- Semitism, the adoption of German occupation by political leadership, the size of pogroms and the structure of collaborative units.
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Constructive change of Protectorate Prague: Nazi plans and realized projects of traffic infrastructure and industrial buildings
Bajusz, Tadeáš ; Vykoukal, Jiří (advisor) ; Matějka, Ondřej (referee)
This thesis deals with the questions of urban planning and building activity in the time of the Second World War. The research topic of the single case study is Prague in the period of Nazi occupation between March 1939 and May 1945. The aim of the thesis is to challenge the simplifying interpretation of occupation as a period without any building activity. The simplifying interpretation usually explains the low number of built objects being caused directly by the occupants' long term plans with Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia. The thesis tries to challenge this interpretation and using the examples of built objects of the traffic infrastructure and industrial buildings, it shows the ongoing building. The first part shortly summarizes the concepts of Nazi architecture and town planning and connects them with long-term plans with the occupied territories of South-eastern Europe. The second chapter concentrates on the Nazi concepts and plans for remaking Prague and introduces the problematics of building activities during occupation. Based on archival research, the examples of building activity of traffic infrastructure and industrial buildings are shown in the third chapter. The conclusion summarizes the results of the research and critically evaluates the outcomes of the thesis. The thesis is based on...
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Village Hradčany in Podještědí at Contemporaly History 1914 - 1948
Havelka, Jan ; Beneš, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Doležalová, Eva (referee)
This work focuses on exploring the village Hradčany in Podještědí in historical period 1914-1957. The main theme of the work is the specific situation of Hradčany, the village on the ethnic, and later also state border of Sudeten and Protectorate during the Second World War, as well as the building of socialism and the ending of the traditional rural economy in the fifties. The whole work is based primarily on oral-history research, interviews with the oldest settlers, collection of photographic sources and written documents as memories and administrative documents.
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Nazi Occupation of the Czech Frontiers and Czech Lands
Pakandl, Josef ; Tretera, Jiří Rajmund (advisor) ; Horák, Záboj (referee)
The thesis deals with impact of the Nazi occupation on the church administration. The aim is to describe as thoroughly as possible the results of the occupation of the Czech borderland as well as remaining area Bohemia and Moravia for the church administration and also to touch some other questions related to this theme. I chose this topic because of my interest in history. The issues of churches and religion societies are also close to me. During writing Master's degree thesis I studied special literature and I visited bishopric in České Budějovice and National archive. The work is divided into nine chapters. The first chapter deals with the occupation of the Czech borderland by German army and subsequent government at this region. The second chapter describes the impact of the occupation on the Roman Catholic Church administration, namely administration in individual dioceses, commissariats of Wroclaw archdiocese on the Czech territory, attempts to fill the vacancy of diocesan bishops from the part of the Apostolic See and consequences for the structure of congregations. The third chapter outlines German church politics and its impact on the church life in the occupied borderland, especially relationship of believers to the national issue, German steps aimed against churches, persecution of...
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The assassination of Reinhard Heydrich - terorist action or the act of legitimate defence?
Timková, Viktória ; Veselý, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Voráček, Emil (referee)
The topic of this bachelor thesis is the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich and the main goal of the thesis is to provide the answer to the question if the assassination was a terorist action or the act of legitimate defence. There is a theoretical basis described in the first chapter defining the concepts of teror, terorism, occupation, collaboration, resistance and passive acceptance. The second chapter analyses the Munich treaty and the circumstances of its enclosure, the begining of the World War II. and the situation of czechoslovak government in exile during the first two war years. Briefing of the parachute landings from april 1941 to april 1942 is written in the end of the chapter. The third chapter analyses occupational polititcs of Neurath and Heydrich, the development of anti-nazi resistance in protectorate, Heydrich's coming and operation and there is a comparison of Neurath's and Heydrich's politics at the end of the chapter. Forth chapter speaks about preparations of the assassination in the homeland and about its successful fulfilment. Nazi reprisals and investigation are also included in this chapter. The aim of the fifth chapter is to analyse the international importance of the assassination and to provide the goal of the thesis which is described above.
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The economic policy occupied Bohemia and Moravia
Mazanec, Milan ; Jakubec, Ivan (advisor) ; Szobi, Pavel (referee)
The focus of the thesis is the economic policy is the occupied Bohemia and Moravia. On the first place the attention is turned to the German vision of capturing Czech capital along with the description of German politics' long-term goals and integrating the protectoral economics into the economy of the Third Reich as a whole. The thesis gives insight into the manner of capturing Czech businesses through German capital, the determination of production volume in individual industry branches and the redistribution of commodities. By discussing the above given features, the thesis describes the whole process of germanization, which captured the field of economics. The thesis depicts the allocation of power between the occupants and the protectoral government as well as its influence on Nazi decisions. Further on the thesis is devoted to social changes arising due to the occupation. The thesis also gives space to discuss German war propaganda, radicalization of society and the Nazi power status, as well as to the aims for destruction of German intentions from the Czech side, be it on political or resistance level.
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