Sudeten Germans in the context of Czech and German history at the turn of the forties and fifties of the 20th century

This bachelor thesis deals with the situation of the Sudeten Germans and their perception of the Czech and German environment in the first years after their displacement. The aim is to describe the attitudes of Czechs and Germans and their political representations to transfer and to each other and describe the reasons which led to these opinions. The first part includes an introduction to the topic, deals with the development of Czech-German relations before Second World War and the transfer of Germans from Czechoslovakia after wartime experiences. The second part describes the stance of Czechoslovakia on the German population after the transfer and perception of the transfer in the Czech context. The third part devotes to the problems of displaced Germans and their views of the transfer, self-perception, the formation of the Sudeten German Landsmanschaft and attitudes the FRG and the GDR to this issue. In the thesis will be used newspaper Sudetendeutsche Zeitung of Sudetendeutsche Landsmanschaft and other contemporary press and literature