Germany

International

Contemporary witnesses from Germany

Photograph, January 2014

Manfred Matthies

* 1941

Germany, Illegal border crossing, Nominees for the Memory of Nations Awards 2014, GDR - outgoing passengers, Political prisoner in the GDR and 3 more categories

13.8.1961 - Building of the Berlin Wall, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall

Maria Mayer as a young woman

Maria Mayer

* 1935

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

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

Helmut Meewes as a boy in Berlin

Helmut Meewes

* 1929

Germany, Illegal border crossing, Underage political prisoners, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954) and 3 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, Death marches 1944-1945

Herbert Meinl

Herbert Meinl

* 1940

Sudeten Germans, Germany

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

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

Jan Meixner

* 1925

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

6926-portrait_former.jpg (historic)

Edgar Menzel

* 1936

Sudeten Germans, Memory of vanished settlements, Germany

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

Anna Michalski (2016)

Anna Michalski

* 1924

Sudeten Germans, Germany

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

Christiane Müller as a young woman in Germany

Christiane Müller

* 1938

Apatrida - osoba bez státního občanství, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Germany

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

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