Těžba uranu versus "očista" pohraničí. Německé pracovní síly v Jáchymovských dolech na přelomu čtyřicátých a padesátých let 20. století
| Title in English | Uranium Mining vesrus "Purging" of the Borderlands: German Labour in the Jáchymov Mines in the Late 1940s and early 1950s |
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| Year of publication | 2006 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Soudobé dějiny |
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| Citation | |
| Field | History |
| Keywords | Forced Labour; Uranium Mining; Population Transfers; Transfer of Germans; Prisoners of War |
| Description | The article is concerned with a rarely researched topic in the history of migration after the Second World War - namely, the development of the uranium industry, the nationalities policy of the Czechoslovak state, and social (particularly ethnic) change in the Jachymov region. the author points to the fact that the uranium deposits in Czechoslovakia after the Second World War became the basis for the rapid development of a whole new branch of industry. The strategic importance of this raw material for the Soviet Union, which was trying to build up its own nuclear arsenal, made uranium mining the priority at the start of the Cold War.The author argues that the Jachymov Mines brought about a local revolution in the region in the course of the larger post-war ethnic-demographic revolution, which was determined by the mass expulsion of Germans and the centrally-controlled colonization of the regions using 'ethnically reliable' settlers. In this context he discusses the second German settlement of some villages, in which the German inhabitants again came to constitute a large part or even the majority. |