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Contemporary witnesses from Germany

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

Otfried Pustejovsky, 1950s

Otfrid Pustejovsky

* 1934

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, The liberation of the city of Ostrava and 2 more anniversaries

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

Frank Richter as a mountaineer, Bohemian Switzerland, 1960s

Frank Richter

* 1949

Illegal border crossing, Life along the Iron Curtain, Germany

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime

Sigrid Richter

Sigrid Richter

* 1952

Victims of East-German secret police (Stasi), Germany

Markus Rindt with instrument

Markus Rindt

* 1967

Germany, Witness of local events from the Communist era, East German Refugee, A cultural celebrity, Life along the Iron Curtain

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 3.10.1990 - Reunification of Germany

The witness in the 1950s

Hedvika Eleonora Rudolfová

* 1933 †︎ 2023

Germany, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 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, 13.8.1961 - Building of the Berlin Wall, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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