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A COMMUNITY IN DIRE STRAITS - SITUATION OF ETHNIC GERMANS IN SLOVAKIA DURING YEARS 1944-1946

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Olejník M.

Človek a spoločnosť. Internetový časopis pre pôvodné teoretické a výskumné štúdie z oblasti spoločenských vied

2008

vol. 11

issue 1

The tragic fate of German community was one of the tragedies, which were result of Hitler's policy of aggression and utter disregard for the human rights. Slovak Germans, similarly like other German communities living in Europe, became entangled in Nazi ideology and paid a high price for it. In many cases they became the victims of events, which were beyond their power to control them. When war ended, they were stigmatized as the enemies of Czechoslovakia and majority of them ousted from their homesteads to unknown fate. A continuity of life of community, which for centuries contributed to economic, cultural and social development of Slovakia, was broken. Today both sides - Slovaks as well as Germans are working together on revitalizing their common heritage.(http://www.saske.sk/cas/)

Dvojjediný svět Vánoc. Vzpomínky na Vánoce mezi Čechami a Bavorskem

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Zischka U.

Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)

2011

vol. 21

issue 4

283-292

It was a chat between the author and her Moravian friend about their childhood that gave rise to writing these Christmas impressions from 'two Christmas worlds'. The parents of both ladies might have equipped their children for life with the same customs, habits, things, fashion, and style of life. In the first case, they continued being lived in Moravia; in the other case they were moved from the region of Cheb in western Bohemia to Bavaria. The behaviour of both ladies was nearly identical or similar in many day-to-day small and big behaviour models, in the 'styles of surviving' after the war. The author discovered she could share more things with her Moravian friend than with those in Bavaria. It was the parents who reminded both ladies of Christmas before 1945; things, letters and photos continue in acting as reminders thereof. The author's Christmas world began in Bohemia. Christmas influences the in-war-born children and the refugees´ or expatriates´ children in a special way. Their experiences, memories and tales listened to at Christmas and in the course of it will be kept in their minds for all their lives. They always carry two Christmas worlds with them. The one represents that narrated and the parents´ memories, the other one means own experiences in after-war Germany. Christmas 'there at home in Bohemia' and Christmas in 'their new homeland in Bavaria' - childhood days in the late 1940s and the 1950s modified the life style and the tradition brought from Bohemia into an interesting mixture this contribution wishes to talk about.

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A COMMUNITY IN DIRE STRAITS - SITUATION OF ETHNIC GERMANS IN SLOVAKIA DURING YEARS 1944-1946

Dvojjediný svět Vánoc. Vzpomínky na Vánoce mezi Čechami a Bavorskem