The Expulsion of Germans from the Area of Šluknov in the Years 1945 - 1947

The goal of the thesis "Transfer of Germans between years 1945-1947 in Šluknov region" is to analyze processes that started after the end of World War II in the Šluknov region and were directly related to the transfer of Germans from the territory of the Czechoslovak Republic. It closely studies the documentation of the transfer inside the Šluknov region, i.e. it is partly an analysis of the legal form, which was the basis for the transfer and mainly an analysis of the complications, which occurred during the transfer, and the practice of the administration when dealing with these complications. I am working with the documents from the local state archive in Děčín and based on these documents I am trying to closely reconstruct the process of the transfer of Germans from the Czechoslovak Republic. I have focused on trying to get a closer look at the conditions in the collecting camps, where the Germans were awaiting the transfer. I am also addressing the problem of German antifascists and their transfer. The issue of the influence of the need to retain the industrial plants in the Šluknov region in good working condition during the transfer is also examined. At the end I am trying to confront the individual transports to the American occupation zone and to the Soviet occupation zone and also find out some..