“…AND THEY WILL CONSIDER THEMSELVES THE LAST VICTIMS OF THE WORLD WAR.” ANTON GRANATIER AND HIS PLANS FOR POPULATION EXCHANGE AND (RE)SETTLEMENT OF SLOVAKIA AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR

• Authors: Richtáriková Tereza
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

While the wave of migrations after the Second World War remains among the more discussed topics of central-European historiography, certain questions still remain unaddressed. This article aims at shedding some light on how the people planning the population exchanges and movements thought about ethnicity and nationhood. We will try to give a partial answer to this question through the example of Anton Granatier, one of the prominent ethnic policy experts of the 1930s and 1940s Czechoslovakia. His ideas on the place of Slovaks and ethnic minorities within Czechoslovakia often clashed with the official line and institutions in Prague, and therefore offer an interestingly multi-faceted picture of contemporary thinking. The opinions of Anton Granatier about the aspects of nationality offer a mix between an essentialist and constructivist approach to ethnicity. His various conflicts with central institutions and colleagues alike offer a crystallisation of ideas that allows us to look into the thinking and re-thinking of nationhood and inter-ethnic relationships of post-war Czechoslovakia.

Keywords

EN

CZECHOSLOVAKIA; SLOVAKS; MINORITY; POPULATION EXCHANGE; RESETTLEMENT; SECOND WORLD WAR; ANTON GRANATIER

• Publisher: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Social Sciences
• Journal: Človek a spoločnosť. Internetový časopis pre pôvodné teoretické a výskumné štúdie z oblasti spoločenských vied
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 1
• Pages: -

Contributors

author

Richtáriková Tereza

• Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1088-4036

Identifiers

DOI

doi.org/10.31577/cas.2022.01.602