Ethnic issues in the western part of Czech Silesia from the perspective of state security forces in the years 1946 to 1948

The article is aimed on the security problems connected with ethnic issues in the region of western part of Czech Silesia in years 1946–1948. After the end of World war II came to the Czech borderland great number of new residents. The article deals with the security corps’ attitudes towards members of individual nationalities and examines the differences in their perceptions.

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World War II-Era Defectors, 1941–1946

Soviet Defectors ◽

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474467230.003.0004 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 100-169

Author(s):

Kevin Riehle

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Soviet System ◽

World War ◽

State Security ◽

The Third ◽

Security Personnel ◽

In Captivity

The third group broke with the Soviet system during World War II and immediately thereafter. In the months after Operation Barbarossa began on 22 June 1941, German forces penetrated deep into Soviet territory, and it is likely that thousands of Soviet intelligence and state security personnel fell into German captivity during that time. Consequently, Germany was the clear intelligence priority early in the war. Of the 32 officers in this group, 18 were captured on the battlefield between 1941 and 1943, most of which defected once they were in captivity. However, Soviet intelligence widened its targeting beyond Germany to its wartime allies even before the war ended. A few others were abroad under diplomatic cover and approached a foreign power requesting asylum. This group extends beyond the formal end of World War II into 1946, because the environment for defectors did not change immediately after the war.

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Tiempos de violencia desigual: guerrilleros contra Franco (1939-1952)Times of unequal violence: guerrilla fighters against Franco (1939-1950)

Vínculos de Historia Revista del Departamento de Historia de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha ◽

10.18239/vdh.v0i5.205 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 105

Author(s):

Benito Díaz Díaz

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Spanish Civil War ◽

World War ◽

La Paz ◽

Security Forces ◽

Palabras Clave ◽

Public Executions ◽

Siglo Xx ◽

National Reconciliation

RESUMEN Tras la victoria del general Franco en la Guerra Civil, la paz no llegó por completo a todos los rincones de la geografía española. La falta de una política de reconciliación nacional, junto al mantenimiento de una intensa actividad represora, hicieron que algunos republicanos se refugiasen en la sierra, sin otro objetivo que el de salvar la vida. Con el tiempo, y en paralelo a la evolución de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el Partido Comunista de España consiguió dotar de objetivos políticos a estos huidos y crear agrupaciones guerrilleras, lo que contribuyó a agravar la violencia rural. En este artículo, con documentación de archivos militares, de partidos políticos y de las fuerzas de orden público, y mediante el uso de la historia oral, abordamos la permanencia de la violencia en el mundo rural: asesinatos, ejecuciones extrajudiciales, fusilamientos públicos, ley de fugas, robos, secuestros, agresiones sexuales, así como otras formas de excesos y coacciones que fueron algo normal en el medio rural durante la década de los años cuarenta del siglo XX. PALABRAS CLAVE: violencia, represión franquista, huidos, guerrillero, ejecuciones extrajudiciales ABSTRACT After the victory of General Franco in the Spanish Civil War, complete peace did not come to all corners of Spain. The lack of a policy of national reconciliation, together with the maintenance of strong repressive activity, led some Republicans to take refuge in the mountains with no other purpose than to save their lives. Over time, and in parallel with the evolution of World War II, the Communist Party of Spain managed to provide these fugitives with political objectives and create guerrilla groups, which contributed to the aggravation of rural violence. In this article, using documentation from military archives, political parties and the security forces, as well as oral history, we address the persistence of violence in rural areas: killings, extrajudicial executions, public executions, ley de fugas, robbery, kidnapping, sexual assault and other forms of excesses and oppression that were normal in rural areas during the 1940s. KEY WORDS: violence, Francoist repression, escapees, guerrilla fighters, extrajudicial executions

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1956 at Ten and Beethoven’s Tenth

Acta Neerlandica ◽

10.36392/actaneerl/2019/15/9 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 185-199

Author(s):

Tibor Glant

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Cold War ◽

Writing Skills ◽

The State ◽

World War ◽

Foreign Service ◽

State Security ◽

Complex Evaluation ◽

Psychological Warfare ◽

Hungarian State

This article looks at Edward Alexander, an American diplomat who served in Hungary between 1965 and 1969, and his various writings. An Armenian-American man of letters, Alexander served in psychological warfare in World War II, then joined cold war radios and later the Foreign Service. Our focus is on the years 1965-67, when he served as Press and Cultural Affairs Officer at the Budapest Legation. Available sources include his official diplomatic reports, his rather large Hungarian state security file, a lifetime interview conducted under the aegis of the State Department in the late 1980s, a book on Armenian history, and a semi-autobiographical intelligence thriller he penned in 2000. These sources allow for a complex evaluation of his performance in Hungary and of his writing skills on account of his attempt to fictionalize his own exploits.

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