Kulturní sdružení občanů ČSSR německé národnosti a Pražské jaro 1968
The Cultural Association of Czechoslovak Citizens of German Nationality and Prague Spring 1968

Summary/Abstract: The paper The Cultural Association of Czechoslovak Citizens of German Nationality and Prague Spring 1968 focuses on the life of the German speaking population on the territory of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic at the turn of 1960s and 1970s. It deals with the influence of the Prague Spring reformation process on the position of the till then ignored minority in Czechoslovakia. The paper follows in detail the activation of the German minority members in order to establish a cultural association, the foundation of which was enabled due to their constitutional rights. The Association was founded and put among social organisations within the National Front of the Czech Socialist Republic in spring 1969. Due to the invasion of the Warsaw Pact armies in August 1968 and its consequences in form of cadre cleansing and personnel changes in Cultural Association of Czechoslovak Citizens of German Nationality (and within the editorial team of the only German periodical Prager Volkszeitung), there was a deviation from the original intentions to socially and culturally enrich the German minority on the Czechoslovak territory, and it turned to be more a political education of the citizens of German nationality.

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