Germany | Memory of Nations

Contemporary witnesses from Germany

Kriemhild Zeh

* 1940

Sudeten Germans, Germany

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

Monika Ziebegk, Prague, 2023

Monika Ziebegk Eckardt

* 1959

Germany, The Sportsmen

Climbing Falkenstein and Sokol, with friends and future wife, 1962

Klaus Zimmermann

* 1941

Life along the Iron Curtain, Germany, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Werner Zimmermann

Werner Zimmermann

* 1935

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Germany

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

Ferdinand Zwerenz in Mariánské Lázně in 2025

Ferdinand Zwerenz

* 1939

Germany, Victim of forced relocation, Memory of vanished settlements, Sudeten Germans, Life along the Iron Curtain

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

Erwin Zwerschina, 2018

Erwin Zwerschina

* 1932

Sudeten Germans, Germany

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

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