The Czech-German Journalism Award for 2023 was won by Veronika Kindlová on Saturday evening for the Téma Plus program entitled Czech Germans in the GDR: successful singers, scientists and politicians. In it, he describes the stories of almost 800,000 Germans from Bohemia who had to leave for the Soviet occupation zone of Germany, which later became the German Democratic Republic. Their fates are almost unknown here.
Prague
12:26 p.m November 12, 2023
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The author of the documentary, Veronika Kindlová, won the Czech-German journalistic award | Photo: Michal Krumphanzl | Source: ČTK
“My husband comes from a family of Germans from Ústí, and some of his relatives were deported – some to the west and some to the east,” said Kindlová, describing the reasons for processing the stories of deported Germans.
Czech Germans deported to the GDR: successful singers, scientists and politicians
But the editor has been covering German topics in the Czech Republic for a long time. It prepares broadcasts for the domestic German minority and searches for German-speaking personalities from Czechoslovakia.
“In recent years, it has happened to me more and more that I have started to come across Germans from the Czech lands who were relegated to the later GDR and made an interesting career there,” she mentioned the results of the search.
These people were quite often expelled from the Czech Republic, as the authorities considered them to be “carriers of National Socialism” and “ideological danger”. Paradoxically, they often ended up in communist ranks in the GDR.
“Some of them went through the so-called Antifa-Schule – anti-fascist schools, where they were ‘reprogrammed’ from National Socialists to Marxist Socialists. Then they worked in the GDR, some of them in high positions,” concludes Kindlová.
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