Sudeten Germans

National Minorities

Adolf Linka - contemporary photo

Adolf Linka

* 1919 †︎ 2014

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Political prisoner in the 1960‘s (ČSSR), National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Wehrmacht soldier and 1 more categories

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Anna Lišková (Ringová)

Anna Lišková

* 1929

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, German minority in Poland after 1945 and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval

Otokar Löbl during Eye Direct recording in Prague, 2022

Otokar Löbl

* 1950

Germany, Theresienstadt Ghetto, The 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 - Withdrawal 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 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Ingeborg Loos

JUDr. Ingeborg Loos

* 1935

Sudeten Germans, Lawyer in the 50`s, Germany

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

Erika Loudová at the age of 20 in her wedding photo

Erika Loudová

* 1938

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Sudeten Germans, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 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

Pauli Luft

Pauli Luftová

* 1935

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

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

Rudolf Lux v roce 2019

Rudolf Lux

* 1939

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

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

Witness in the military service, 1965

Otto Macák

* 1945

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Sudeten Germans, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 5. 4. 1968 – Formation of KAN (Club of Active Non-partisans)

Josef Mach after the war

Ing. Josef Mach

* 1924

Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, Studentské pochody na Pražský hrad

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