KATREBOVÁ BLEHOVÁ, Beáta. Carpathian Germans and State Security in the Stalinist period

The issue of the Czechoslovak State Security in relation to the Carpathian Germans forms an important part of the history of the State Security and, ultimately, of the history of the Czechoslovak communist regime. After the end of the Second World War, members of the German minority found themselves in the position of a nation without fundamental rights, destined for displacement. As a result of their mass displacement, especially during the Stalinist period, the regime feared revanchism, which was the main reason for the monitoring of the Sudeten- and Carpathian-German movement in West Germany, as well as of the German minority in Slovakia, by the intelligence and counter-intelligence units of the State Security. This is an issue that has not been the subject of in-depth research so far; the study, therefore, represents the first more comprehensive attempt at proper historiographic processing and evaluation.