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Contemporary witnesses from Germany

Cut out from a family photograph of Andělín Kvapil, 1950s

Andělín Kvapil

* 1931

Spolupracovník Vojenské kontrarozvědky, Germany, Poles in Regained Lands, 1945 - 1956, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, March 1945 - the occupation of Upper Silesia by the Soviet army and 4 more anniversaries

Peter Linhart as a boy in Nejdek

Professor, Dr. Peter Linhart

* 1938 †︎ 2025

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

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

Otokar Löbl during Eye Direct recording in Prague, 2022

Otokar Löbl

* 1950

Germany, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Journalist, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Sudeten Germans

1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Children in Nýrsko after the war (Johann with the hatchet)

Johann Löffelmann

* 1939

Illegal border crossing, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Germany

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

Ingeborg Loos

JUDr. Ingeborg Loos

* 1935

Sudeten Germans, Lawyer in the 50`s, Germany

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

Rudolf Lux v roce 2019

Rudolf Lux

* 1939

Victim of forced relocation, Relative of a political prisoner, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Germany

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

Karin Macháčková, Děčín, 1961

Karin Macháčková

* 1943

Germany, Illegal border crossing, Communist official, Déclassé, Industrial settler in border region in 60' and 1 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 7.10.1949 - Creation of the German Democratic Republic and 5 more anniversaries

Helga Marsch

Helga Marsch

* unknown

Germany, Victim of forced relocation, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945)

1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories

Photograph, January 2014

Manfred Matthies

* 1941

Germany, Illegal border crossing, GDR - outgoing passengers, Political prisoner in the GDR, East German Refugee and 2 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 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

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