Czechs and Germans 1848-2004

Titel: Czechs and Germans 1848-2004 : the Sudeten question and the transformation of Central Europe / Václav Houžvička
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Veröffentlicht: Prague : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press, 2015
Umfang: 648 Seiten : Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 8024621444 ; 8073252848 ; 9788024621449 ; 9788073252847
Lokale Klassifikation: 62 7 P ; 62 7 J ; 62 7 S ; 22 7 O ; 25 3 H ; 25 7 O
  • Introduction - Historical Context and the Right to Memory
  • p. 9
  • 1
  • German Central Europe and Czech Emancipation
  • p. 13
  • Ethnic Tensions in the Monarchy and Masaryk's Programme
  • p. 72
  • 2
  • Mitteleuropa - The vision of a dominant Germany
  • p. 86
  • Naumann's Project
  • p. 90
  • Ideas of Greater Germany
  • p. 94
  • 3
  • The Central Europe of the Successor States
  • p. 102
  • The Paris Peace Conference
  • p. 107
  • German Bohemians versus Czechoslovakia
  • p. 115
  • Democratic Reform of National-Ethnic Relations
  • p. 120
  • Civic Nation versus Ethnic Community
  • p. 128
  • 4
  • Germans in the New Republic
  • p. 133
  • The Language Law
  • p. 139
  • German Parties and the Politics of Engagement
  • p. 146
  • The Economic Crisis and the Borderlands
  • p. 148
  • 5
  • The Resurgence of Germany as a Great Power
  • p. 156
  • Through Equal Rights to Revision
  • p. 157
  • Complaints to the League of Nations
  • p. 161
  • German Minorities Abroad
  • p. 170
  • Ethnic Germans as an Instrument of Expansion
  • p. 180
  • The Programme of International Isolation of the CSR
  • p. 187
  • The Psychological War against Czechoslovakia
  • p. 196
  • Press Propaganda
  • p. 199
  • 6
  • The Triumph of the Appeasers at Munich
  • p. 206
  • Secret Diplomatic Soundings in Prague
  • p. 209
  • Henlein's Karlsbad Ultimatum
  • p. 216
  • Munich 1938
  • p. 227
  • The Historical Dilemma of Capitulation
  • p. 238
  • The Interval of the Second Republic
  • p. 246
  • The Conflict-Ridden Principle of Self-determination
  • p. 253
  • 7
  • The Genesis of the Transfer of the Sudeten Germans
  • p. 259
  • A Century of Transfers of Populations
  • p. 261
  • The Sudeten Germans and the Protectorate
  • p. 274
  • The Sudetenland Model Reichsgau
  • p. 277
  • The London Government in Exile and the Home Resistance
  • p. 284
  • Edward Benes and British Plans
  • p. 291
  • Transfer or Expulsion?
  • p. 306
  • Cutting the Gordian Knot
  • p. 317
  • 8
  • The Transferred Sudeten Germans in Post-war Germany
  • p. 331
  • The Formation of the Sudeten German Expellee Organisations
  • p. 333
  • The Unification of the Expellees
  • p. 342
  • The Twenty-Point Programme
  • p. 351
  • The Support of the Political Spectrum of the FRG for the Expellees
  • p. 354
  • 9
  • The Sudeten German Question between Home and Exile
  • p. 361
  • The Danubius Theses on the Expulsion of the Czechoslovak Germans
  • p. 368
  • The Czech Fate in Central Europe
  • p. 377
  • The Redefinition of the German Role in Central Europe
  • p. 384
  • 10
  • The Return of Freedom (and History) - 1989
  • p. 395
  • The Opening of Dialogue and the Division of the State
  • p. 397
  • The Declaration and Conditional Reconciliation
  • p. 402
  • Modified Regionalism and Ethnic Minorities
  • p. 409
  • The Dual Interpretation of History
  • p. 414
  • 11
  • Memory as Part of the Present
  • p. 419
  • Cautious Friendship
  • p. 422
  • The Historical Roots of Attitudes to Germany
  • p. 428
  • Fears of Germany - A Reduced State Syndrome?
  • p. 438
  • Germany Unified and Emancipated
  • p. 442
  • The Return of Mitteleuropa?
  • p. 446
  • 12
  • Germany and the Sudeten German Question in the Eyes of Public Opinion
  • p. 454
  • 13
  • The Czech-German Relationship between Past and Future
  • p. 470
  • Instead of a conclusion
  • p. 477
  • Bibliography
  • p. 481
  • Bibliographical Note
  • p. 527
  • List of Appendix Documents
  • p. 530
  • List of Maps and Graphs
  • p. 603
  • List of Illustrations
  • p. 624
  • Index of Organisation Names
  • p. 626
  • Index of Personal Names
  • p. 635