Sudeten Germans | Memory of Nations

A photograph of Werner Hentschel from the University Index

Werner Hentschel

* 1945

Environmentalist, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Life along the Iron Curtain

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain and 1 more anniversaries

Václav Hieke during one of the Czech Tourist Club events, 1985

Václav Hieke

* 1951

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

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Alois Hiernich in September 2012

Alois Hirnich

* 1931 †︎ unknown

Memory of vanished settlements, Sudeten Germans

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Anna Hladká in 1938

Anna Hladká

* 1932 †︎ 2025

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

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

Home in Rumburk on a leave from the barracks, 1965

Jaroslav Hocký

* 1946

Forced labour during the WW2, Sudeten Germans, Life along the Iron Curtain

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 7 more anniversaries

Gerti Hoedt, Stráž nad Ohří, 2021

Gertrude (Gerti) Hoedt

* 1941

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Marie Hofbauerová during the recoding in Staré Hobzí on 6 August 2020

Marie Hofbauerová

* 1927 †︎ 2024

Illegal border crossing, National minorities, Sudeten Germans

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

In a childhood photo from the late 1940s

Horst Hofmann

* 1940

National minorities, Sudeten Germans

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

Josef Hofmann in the Wehrmacht, 1944

Private (ret.) Josef Hofmann

* 1926 †︎ 2011

National minorities, Memory of vanished settlements, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 4 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 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

Richard Hofmann as a young man

Richard Hofmann

* 1944

Sudeten Germans, Forced labour during the WW2, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Memory of vanished settlements

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

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