Life in refugee camps in Bavaria after World War II.

Title: Life in refugee camps in Bavaria after World War II. Author: Ilona Hypšová Supervisor: doc. PhDr. Jiří Hnilica, Ph.D. The bachelor thesis deals with life in refugee camps in Bavaria after the Second World War. To this end, the bachelor thesis asks several questions, including: "What was the situation in Central Europe, especially in Czechoslovakia and Germany between 1945 and 1955?", "For what reasons did people leave or flee Czechoslovakia?" and "What were their beginnings in the refugee camps? What was life like there?" The topic of escapes and emigration from Czechoslovakia is related to the post-war situation in both Czechoslovakia and Germany in the years 1945-1955 and it shows the complexity of the period in both countries. Czechoslovakia was slowly coming under the rule of the Communist Party, Germany lay in ruins and was initially divided between the four victorious powers: the USA, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and France. Immediately after the war, Sudeten Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia and subsequently displaced finding a place to stay in a destroyed Germany, primarily in Bavaria. The fleeing Germans are joined only a short time later by Czechoslovak refugees fleeing the newly established regime. They travelled to the United States or Australia, but the refugees..