Renewal of associations after World War II and their viable functioning illustrated by the exemple of repatriation and Displaced Persons
Abstract
The associations, whose activities in the Czechoslovak Republic developed dynamically before the war, hit hard wounds of war events. After the war, the societies were renewed on the basis of a presidential decrees on associations, but this was done under modified conditions that carried a trace of previous events.
Nevertheless, many associations started to operate again, others were newly formed and actively participated in current problems. Contribution from a wide range of activities monitors the involvement of associations in the so-called repatriation event, when it was thanks to their help that the organization of the return of Displaced Persons (persons moved to forced labor, to concentration camps, in exile or captivity) was better managed after the Second World War.
Even in this example, the viability of the renewed societies is obvious, although the later centralization and politicization tendencies of federal activity, respectively. associations, they almost overshadowed this fact.