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In 1941 the London Czechoslovak emigration led by Edvard Benes came to conviction that it is necessary to resettle the German and Hungarian population from the post-war renewed Czechoslovakia and the country borders have to be changed to ethnic borders. The population exchange that began in 1947 - with longer or shorter interruptions - lasted to December 1948. 89 660 Hungarians were resettled from Czechoslovakia, and settled voluntarily or forcefully in Hungary. In the contrary to the exchange transports and regime transports, and on the basis of the decision No. 48 and 60 of the Czechoslovak-Hungarian Joint Committee that was in charge of the population exchange, a total of 71 787 Slovaks arrived from Hungary to Czechoslovakia. Therefore, the population exchange was not executed in the extension planned by Czechoslovakia - it did not succeed to settle the 'war criminals' as it was planned and also the settlement of almost fifteen percent of Hungarians living in Slovakia in the most concerned regions (mainly in the regions by the river of Hron and Vah, in Upper Zitny ostrov, Komarno and Nove Zamky, in a smaller extension in Gemer), but it still resulted to extensive change of the ethnical compositions in previous homogenous Hungarian territories.
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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.
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