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Sudeten German Communist Exile between 1938-1945

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2020

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to describe the policy of Sudeten German members of Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in their London and Moscow exile during the World War II. It describes chronologically how their activity was determined by major milestones of communist movement in this period.

It shows that there are continuities between their fluctuating policy during the war and their policy in the thirties. Even during the war, the Communist party was not a monolith.

On the contrary, many members tried to manoeuvre themselves in the space that was created by the head of the party, the government of Soviet Union and other actors of the Czechoslovakian exile.