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Czech–German Relations and the Politics of Central Europe From Bohemia to the EU JürgenTampke Czech–German Relations and the Politics of Central Europe Also by Jürgen Tampke AUSTRALIA WILLKOMMEN: A History of the Germans in Australia EUROPE: RETROSPECTS AND PROSPECTS. Proceedings of the Tenth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association of European Historians (with John Perkins) FROM BERLIN TO THE BURDEKIN: Ludwig Leichhardt and the German Contribution to Australia’s Exploration, Science and the Arts (with David Walker) ‘RUTHLESS WARFARE’: German Military Planning and Surveillance in the Australia–New Zealand Region before the Great War THE PEOPLES’ REPUBLICS OF EASTERN EUROPE THE RUHR AND REVOLUTION: The Revolutionary Movement in the Rhenish- Westphalian Industrial Region 1912–1919 ‘THE WORKER’S PARADISE?’. Robert Schachner’s Letters from Australia (edited with John Lack and Frederick Ohles) TWENTIETH CENTURY GERMANY: Quest for Power TWENTIETH CENTURY GERMANY: The Weimar and Nazi Years WUNDERBAR COUNTRY: Germans Look at Australia 1850–1914 Czech–German Relations and the Politics of Central Europe From Bohemia to the EU Jürgen Tampke Associate Professor University of New South Wales Australia © Jürgen Tampke 2003 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2003 978-0-333-73449-0 All rights reserved.No reproduction,copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced,copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988,or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency,90 Tottenham Court Road,London W1T 4LP. 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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Tampke,Jürgen. Czech-German relations and the politics of Central Europe :from Bohemia to the EU/Jürgen Tampke. p.cm. Includes bibliographical reference and index. 1.Germans – Czech Republic – Sudetenland.2.Sudetenland (Czech Republic) – Ethnic relations.3.Czech Republic – Relations – Germany. 4.Germany – Relations – Czech Republic.I.Title. DB2500.S94 T36 2002 943.71’00431—dc21 2002029401 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 To Christine Contents Acknowledgements viii Glossary of Geographical Terms ix List of Abbreviations x Map of the Bohemian Lands xii Introduction xiii 1 The Lands of the Weceslav Crown 1 2 Czechoslovakia 25 3 The Reichsgau Sudetenlandand the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia 45 4 Expulsion and Forced Resettlement 73 5 Expellee Politics 95 6 In the Forefront 118 7 Lest We Forget 138 Notes 156 Works Cited and Consulted 179 Index 191 vii Acknowledgements This work would not have been possible without the generous financial assistance of the School of History and the Faculty of Arts of the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. The Collegium Carolinum and the Sudetendeutsche Archiv in Munich provided valuable and informative material. Good advice and/or kind assistance came from Richard J. Evans, Heather Field, K. Erik Franzen, Dick Geary, Milan Hauner, Gerhard Hirschfeld, Bruce Kent, Bruce W. Memming, Bernd Martin, Hans Mommsen, John Perkins, Arnold Velden, Katharina Vadura and Stephen Wheatcroft. The author wishes to stress, however, that mistakes and all other shortcomings are solely his responsibility. Fritz Büchler assisted with translations from the German, and Monika Doláková, Anna Kozáková and Petra Kurtincová with translations from the Czech. A very special thanks to Gay Breyley for her assistance with the editing. Colin Doxford devoted many hours of his spare retiree time to discuss the more difficult parts of the manuscript and finally thanks to Christine for everything. viii Glossary of Geographical Terms Altvater-Gebirge Rychlebské hory Aussig Ústí nad Labem Böhmisch Leipa C˘eská Lípa Budweis Bud˘ejovice Brünn Brno Brüx Most Eger Cheb Gablonz Jablonec Iglau Jihlava Isergebirge Jizerské hory Königgrätz Hradec Králové Kremnitz Kremnica Krummau C˘esk´y Krumlov Landskron Lan˘skroun Mährisch Schönberg ˘Sumperk Marienbad Mariánské Lázn˘e Moldau Vlatava Olmütz Olomouc Pilsen Plzen˘ Reichenberg Liberec Teplitz Teplice Trautenau Trutnov ix List of Abbreviations ADG Archiv der Gegenwart BA Bene˘su°v archiv BdL Bund der Landwirte BdV Bund der Vertriebenen/Vereinigte Landsmann- schaften und Landesverbände BHE Bund der Heimat Vertriebenen und Entrechteten BHE/GB Bund der Heimat Vertriebenen und Entrechteten/Gesamtdeutscher Block BvD Bund der vertriebenen Deutschen CE Common Era CDU Christlich Demokratische Union CPSU Communist Party of the Soviet Union C˘SR Czechoslovak Republic C˘SSR Czechoslovak Socialist Republic CSU Christlich Soziale Union DGFP Documents on German Foreign Policy DNP Deutsche Nationalpartei DNSAP Deutsche nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei DSAP Deutsche sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei in der Tschechoslowakei FDP Freie Demokratische Partei FRG Federal Republic of Germany GDR German Democratic Republic KB Kameradschaftsbund LAG Lastenausgleichsgesetz NSDAP Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ODS Obcanska Demokraticka Strana PDS Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus SA Sturmabteilung SD Sicherheitsdienst SED Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands SOE Special Operations Executive SPD Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands SdL Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft SdP Sudetendeutsche Partei SdR Sudetendeutscher Rat x
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