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Contemporary witnesses from Germany

Jan Meixner during the filming on 6 August 2020 in Staré Hobzí

Jan Meixner

* 1925 †︎ 2022

Sudeten Germans, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W, Wehrmacht soldier, Germany

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

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Edgar Menzel

* 1936

Sudeten Germans, Memory of vanished settlements, Germany

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Anna Michalski (2016)

Anna Michalski

* 1924

Sudeten Germans, Germany

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Konrad Micksch, Dresden, 2021

Konrad Micksch

* 1938

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Germany

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Josef Moder in 1957 in Chodov

Josef Moder

* 1938

Germany, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, National minorities, Sudeten Germans

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Jan Moudrý (sitting on the chair in the very front) during World War II with some of his family members

Jan Moudrý

* 1938

Germany, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Christiane Müller as a young woman in Germany

Christiane Müller

* 1938

Apatrida - osoba bez státního občanství, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Germany

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Hermina Musilová (1950)

Hermina Musilová

* 1928

National minorities, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Victim of forced relocation, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Repatriated and 5 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

contemporary photo from 1947

Dr. Walter Rochus Nachtigall

* 1931

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Victim of forced relocation, Germany

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Ernst Nodes, Neukirchen 2019

Ernst Nodes

* 1944

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Germany

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

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