SETTLEMENT OF THE CZECH BORDERLANDS AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR: RE-EMIGRATION OF COMPATRIOTS FROM BULGARIA

Tereza Lančová

Abstract:

Within the context of the Second World War, three mass population movements occurred in the territory of the Czechoslovak Republic, affecting a total of more than 5 million people. The first mass transfer of the Czechoslovak population took place after the Munich Agreement (1938). The second and the third transfers took place after the end of the war, with the expulsion of the German minority, which took place simultaneously with the settlement of the Czech borderlands. The main purpose of this short study is to describe and summarize information about the process of post-war settlement of the Czech borderlands, which included the state-organized re-emigration of foreign compatriots. This text also deals with the final point of the whole event – the re-emigration of Czechs and Slovaks from Bulgaria, which took place in 1950, when the state-organized and individual re-emigration of foreign compatriots was officially terminated.

Keywords: migration, World War II, German minority, Czech borderlands, re-emigration