The exhibition will show Chomutovska under the swastika

Chomutov – Sudeten County is an unknown term for many of today’s residents of the former Sudetenland.

However, from the point of view of history, it was not so long ago that its inhabitants, including Chomutovska, welcomed its creation with jubilation and sincere joy, because from their point of view, after a long time, historical justice was fulfilled. In October 1938, the Munich Agreement entered into force, meaning that Czechoslovakia lost its border areas to the then Nazi Germany. Thus, the Sudeten County was created, a new administrative territory of Germany, and it was supposed to be a model of the National Socialist regime. How did such a transformation affect the area and its inhabitants? And what exactly did she mean to them?

The regional museum in Chomutov prepared the exhibition Chomutovska under the swastika, which maps the social and economic life in the Sudeten County in the years 1938–1945 with a focus on the Chomutovska and Jirkovska region. Visitors will also learn about the everyday problems of ordinary residents and how the war years of that time weighed on them. The space is also dedicated to the very end of the war and the subsequent expulsion and removal of the Sudeten Germans. The exhibition is ideologically based on the exhibition Hope, Disappointment and Fear, which was prepared by the Děčín Museum in 2022.

The opening of the exhibition is on May 9 from 4 p.m. in the town hall building, 1 May square. The event will last until October 26, 2024.