Abstrakt
The present article is concerned with how the concept of guilt is used in literary works dealing with themes of two historical events connected with the Second World War, namely with the Holocaust and the transfer of Germans from Czechoslovakia. The main analysis focuses on the work of authors writing about the post-war transfer and at the same time dealing with the Holocaust.
Bearing in mind these characteristics, following texts have been chosen for the analysis: Prager Totentanz by Olga Barényi, Peníze od Hitlera by Radka Denemarková and Galgen am Weinberg by Josef Mühlberger. The concept of guilt is treated differently in these texts.
A recurring motif is the life story of people, who have survived a concentration camp, but having returned home they are treated by Czechs in the same way as Germans are. Furthermore, both the characters and the narrator struggle with the concept of collective guilt.
It seems that the way the aforementioned themes are treated and interconnected corresponds to the narrator's point of view of the matter of guilt.