CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Hájek, Vít |
|---|---|
| Title | Non-Sudeten German Question: The Genealogy of Czech Public Debate on the Transfer of Sudeten Germans from Czechoslovakia |
| Summary | This works seeks to bring to light the way the public debate on the Sudeten German transfer crystalized during the roughly 50 years between 1945 and 1990s within the Czech society. Chapters tries to concentrate on different societal niveaus and their own contribution to the transfer debate. Such as Czechoslovak intellectuals debating the transfer and, importantly enough, the socialist reform during the 60s; the Czechoslovak historical science and its impact on the debate between 50s and 60s, in the 2nd chapter. So-called “dissident ghetto” debating the transfer during the 70s and 80s, in the 3rd chapter. Or the full-blown societal debate following the end of communism seen through the lenses of the Czechoslovak TV coverage, in the 4th chapter. This works starts with the daring proposition that it was not the interest in the sad fate of the transferred Sudeten Germans itself which fuelled the debate but rather the cultural imperative of civility which was provoking a number of the Czechoslovak intellectuals to continue their attempts, often futile, to bring the transfer issue to the public light. |
| Supervisor | Trencsényi, Balázs |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/hajek_vit.pdf |
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