{"id":14,"date":"2018-11-07T11:26:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T10:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marginalization.usd.cas.cz\/en\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2021-12-01T11:16:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T10:16:03","slug":"vyzkum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marginalization.usd.cas.cz\/en\/vyzkum\/","title":{"rendered":"Forced service of citizens of occupied countries in the German armed forces during World War II as a topic of historical research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The fact that citizens of the occupied countries had served in German armed forces on a relatively mass scale represented a fact that the state authorities, propagandistic apparatus as well as societies of the affected countries tried to marginalize or completely suppress. As a result, the phenomenon has not been subjected to thorough exploration by historians, not even in the countries of Western Europe, let alone in countries with a totalitarian system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Revising myths that have been accepted by entire societies was a very slow process (HAASE \u2013 PAUL 1995), which attracts only a limited attention (for example, RIEDWEG 1995, KOENIG 2007 or GRANDHOMME 2011 in France, or KOKALJ-KO\u010cEVAR 1999 in Slovenia). When it comes to the extent of the related research and to geographical context, the studies of Polish historians are significant (particularly KACZMAREK 2010). Slovenian historian Monika Kokalj-Ko\u010devar attempted to combine the somewhat unconvincing research in various countries within the frame of an international project: in 2012, an international conference that combined Slovenian research results with partial results from experts from other countries took place in Ljubljana. The conference demonstrated a great potential of the international context of the topic that has been, so far, perceived mainly through the prism of national or regional history. While the expected publication outputs were not met, the conference participants have continued with their work with the given topic. One of the outstanding results became the proceeding from a colloquium in Strasbourg (STROH \u2013 QUADFLIEG 2016). Most of all, however, the topic still represents a challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the Czech Republic, the issue of Wehrmacht<\/em> soldiers and particularly the process of accepting prisoners-of-war into the exile armed forces of the has appeared only marginally, usually as short references in studies of a wider extent or of related topics (BOR\u00c1K 2010). Thematically focused articles and studies only began to appear during the first years of the new millennium, and even those only very sporadically (MAL\u00cd\u0158 2001, PIVCOV\u00c1 2001). The specific context of the disputes related to the citizenship of the Wehrmacht<\/em> prisoners of war from the T\u011b\u0161\u00edn area was explored in detail by Ji\u0159\u00ed Friedl (FRIEDL 2003a, 2003b, 2005). In November 2013, Czech TV devoted part of their Historie.cs series to the topic (http:\/\/www.ceskatelevize.cz\/ct24\/archiv\/1049298-cesi-ve-wehrmachtu<\/a> [28. 02. 2017]). Certain documentary results can be also obtained from the activities of some regional civic associations (http:\/\/www.hultschiner-soldaten.de<\/a> [28. 02. 2017]).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An electronic database of soldiers of the Czechoslovak army-in exile, created between 2004 and 2013 in the military historical archive in Prague, and other outputs of individual members of the then future team became important for the beginnings of the current project. Ji\u0159\u00ed Nemin\u00e1\u0159 dedicated his university qualification thesis to his topic, Zdenko Mar\u0161\u00e1lek and Vladim\u00edr Pil\u00e1t played a significant role in creating the said database, while Zdenko Mar\u0161\u00e1lek was a participant in the above-mentioned conference in Ljubljana. In 2017, a project guaranteed by the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences was prepared and submitted within the Grant Competition of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n