The demands of expellee organizations of Sudeten Germans in Fedeeral Republic of Germany put forward to the Czech Republic between the years 1993-1997

This Bachelor thesis is devoted to the demands of expellee organisations of the Sudeten Germans in the Federal Republic of Germany put forward to the Czech Republic between the years 1993 - 1997. The demands which the expellee organizations of the Sudeten German organizations raised with the Czech Republic in the 90's in connection with the Sudeten German question became one of the most discussed topics of Czech-German relations and strongly influenced them. After outlining the bilateral field of Czech-German relations with emphasis on their historical dimension and characterisation of the expellee organisations of the Sudeten Germans examined in this thesis there is a description of how the chosen subjects interpreted the period of shared Sudeten German-Czech history between the years 1918 - 1945 and the way they raised demands for their right for a homeland, material compensation, the commencement of dialogue with the Czech government and the reversal of the presidential decrees. The goal of this thesis is to map if and how these demands and topics developed over the chosen time period, how the individual organizations raised them and which of these demands were adopted by certain German political parties. The speeches and statements of the representatives of the expellee organisations of the..