Persecution of catholic church in former soviet countries in the years 1945-1956. Case: political process in Frydlant in Bohemia

The submitted rigorous theses deal with the political-churchly situation in the Central Europe between the years 1945-1956. It describes the position of Vatican after WWII. and also the development of the Vatican's attitude towards the left-wind ideology. It also gives a picture about the position of the Catholic Church in Poland, East Germany, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. It describes the persecution of bishops, clericals, friars, nuns; it describes the intended limitation of the church's influence on the active Catholics too. 111 A special part consists of the analyses of some historical sources which gives a clear picture about the period of the hardest persecution of the Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia, directly in the frontier region Frýdlant v Čechách. Some important elements of the totalitarian system of that period are described: The State office for clerical affairs, the signification of the Church secretary's activities, the Catholic action, the Catholic cleric's persecution and especially the activity of the internment monastery in Hejnice. One of the parts of these theses is also a study about the delivery transportation of monasterial libraries in Czechoslovakia. As an addition to the topic there are 4 interviews with the victims of the persecution given, there are lists with names of the..