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Contemporary witnesses from Germany

Dieter Piwernetz in Weidenberg, 2019

Dieter Piwernetz

* 1938

Victim of forced relocation, GDR - outgoing passengers, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Germany

13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Anna Plobner

Anna Plobner

* 1932

Germany, Victim of forced relocation, Memory of vanished settlements, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1950 - creation of the buffer zone between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany and Austria, 1951 - creation of the restricted border area along the Czechoslovakian border with Western Germany and Austria

Plunze_Foto_1.jpg (historic)

Frank Plunze

* 1962

Political prisoner in the GDR, Reception camp for GDR- refuges in Gießen, FRG, East German Refugee, The ransom of political prisoners in the GDR, Victims of East-German secret police (Stasi) and 1 more categories

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall

Erhard Pluške, 1950s

Erhard Pluške

* 1933

Germany, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Herta Pokorná in 1949

Herta Pokorná

* 1940

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, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Gerd Poppe 2014

Gerd Poppe

* 1941

Dissident, Politician, Germany

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall, 17.6.1953 - Uprising of 1953 in East Germany and 2 more anniversaries

Milan Prokop shortly after his emigration to Germany, 1968

Milan Prokop

* 1945

Germany, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, National minorities, Witness of local events from the Communist era

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Karl Reinerth altes Bild.jpg (historic)

Karl Reinerth

* 1944

German minority in Romania, Leaving of Romania by the German minority, Germany

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Alžběta Reinoldová in 1944

Alžběta Reinoldová

* 1938

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Friedrich Reithmeier, 1950´s

Friedrich Reithmeier

* 1936

Illegal border crossing, National minorities, Memory of vanished settlements, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

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

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