Zapomenutý kraj. České pohraničí 1948–1960 a takzvaná akce dosídlení
Forgotten Country: The Bohemian Borderlands, 1948–60, and the Operation to Increase the Number of Settlers

Summary/Abstract: The article traces the contours of social development in the Bohemian borderlands from the Communist takeover in February 1948 to the end of the 1950s (with a recapitulation of the changes in the 1960s) through the lens of Czechoslovak resettlement policy. By way of introduction he points out that in the course of about two years after the end of the Second World War historically quite exceptional demographic, economic, and social processes were taking place in the Bohemian borderlands, which set about five million people in motion. The transfer of almost three million Germans and the subsequent settlement process changed the appearance of all these areas for decades to come. The two operations overlapped, and had largely been completed by mid-1947. Their having been carried out strengthened the Communist Party, which had invested the operations with its own particular ideas and used them to pursue its own political aims.

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