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The radicalization of East German youth - the case of Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund
Šašková, Klára ; Nigrin, Tomáš (advisor) ; Handl, Vladimír (referee)
The exposure of the terrorist organisation Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund (National Socialist Underground, NSU) in November 2011 exposed the still topical problem that is the right-wing scene in contemporary Germany. The Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund consisted of three young people: Beate Zschäpe, Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Böhnhardt. The group managed to stay hidden for over ten years without being discovered by the police or the authorities during which time its members committed at least ten murders, fifteen robberies and two bomb attacks. Its discovery reopened the issue of how the Federal Republic of Germany has been dealing with both its Nazi-past and its current right-wing scene. This thesis focuses on the radicalization of East German youth in the 1990s and presents this trend using the aforementioned group as an example. Firstly, right-wing extremism is characterized and this part is followed by the description of the specifics of right-wing extremism in GDR and the new federal states (Bundesländer). The thesis then describes the lives of the three members before the formation of the group, the operation of the group while hidden as well as the crimes linked to the group. Firstly, it focuses on the bank robberies the trio used to gain financial resources, secondly, on the murders...
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The activity of protest movements in 1956-1977 in Denmark and Sweden
Kučerová, Markéta ; Hořejšová, Tereza (advisor) ; Svobodný, Petr (referee)
Bachelor thesis "The Activity of Protest Movements in 1956-1977 in Denmark and Sweden" deals with the activities of social movements that originated in the territory of Denmark and Sweden in connection with the Western wave of protest activism and the overall radicalization of youth in the 1960s and the 1970s. It was especially a movement against nuclear weapons and the war in Vietnam and the student revolt of 1968. The paper analyzes the circumstances, the protest actions and subsequent consequences of activity of these movements in both countries and its objective is a complex comparison of the Danish and the Swedish cases. This comparison subsequently highlights the differences between the protest movements of Denmark and Sweden in various aspects, which are described in the text. One of them is the development of left-wing movement after 1956 and the emergence of new intellectual currents that influenced the direction of the protest movements. Other parts are devoted to the course and the extent of demonstrations of particular movements and their content, goals and expressions, for example through alternative culture. The thesis also provides the characteristics of the socio-political situation in Denmark and Sweden in the given period, which imply the specifics of the development of protest...
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