The main goal of this work is to trace down the fates of Aboriginal soldiers in the Canadian military during the Second World War and to answer the questions of what their motives were to enlist and how they were treated after coming home. Therefore, the theoretical part deals with the development of the relationship between the Aboriginals and the Europeans, summarizing the WW2 from the Canadian point of view while paying special attention to the presence of Aboriginals. The practical part answers questions raised above and stated in more detail in the Introduction. Further it deals with the biographies of concrete Aboriginals and the contribution of this thesis to Czech students.

The Second British-Afghan War was the middle one of three conflicts, which passed between Great Britain and Afghanistan in 1839-1919. This dissertation deals with development of British-afghan relations, and its aggravation culminating into war. Dissertation also tries to explain influence of British concerns of Russian expansion through Central Asia. The conduct of war affairs is also included. Dissertation presents war events from the first action in Khyber Pass all the way to the famous march of British force from Kabul to Kandahar led by General Roberts. It also contains final assessment of the conflict from the sight of British Empire and also from the sight of reunited Afghanistan and its new ruler Abdur Rahman.

This paper deals with the issue of refugees who had to leave boarder regions of Czechoslovakia in 1938 after Germans occupied them as a result of the Munich Conference. It analyzes their numbers, motivations, professions etc. and then focuses on the management of refugee care. It tries to characterize the basic attributes of the care and especially concentrates on their feeding, clothing, employment, emigration and medical service. From September 1938 to March 1939 almost 200 thousand refugees escaped to reduced Czechoslovakia (so called "Second Republic") which caused serious problems. There was confusion in the country but authorities in cooperation with NGOs and private companies managed to provide refugees with basic accommodation, clothing and feeding. However, their employment and permanent settlement remained, due to the economic problems of the state and winter season, which made seasonal works impossible, unsolved till German occupation in March 1939.

This master thesis "Anti-Jewish propaganda during the Second Czechoslovak Republic in selected periodicals" analyses four journals for evidence of anti-Semitic manifestations. Jewish question in the second half of the Thirties of the 20th century resonated throughout whole Europe, including Czechoslovakia. On the territory of the Second Republic was the situation for the Jewish population, unlike other European countries, relatively bearable. However, it is possible to observe the practices of anti-Jewish propaganda, for example labeling of Jewish shops, or anti-Semitic texts published in papers. Periodicals based in Czechoslovakia in the period from October 1938 to March 1939 can be divided into three groups according to the classification of Petr Bednarik. In the first group there are newspapers with anti-Semitic articles, among them the National Policy. The second selected journal Czech Word belongs to the group of periodicals, which was trying not to publish articles about this topic, and the third group, which rejected anti-Semitic attacks, include the periodicals the People's Right and the National Labour. The aim is to map these periodicals and confirm their inclusion in the relevant categories and describe the development of anti-Semitic propaganda during the Second Czechoslovak Republic....

7 The abstract I consider the works of Peter Sloterdijk in my thesis. I concentrate to Sloterdijk's way of understanding of the topic cynicism in the relationship to kynicism. At first I try to describe the topic cynicism which I consider as very important to understand Sloterdijk's way of understanding of the European history in the book Falls Europa erwacht. I try to explain, how the cynicism influences various parts of life, I consider particularly the military cynicism and the cynicism of power. I consider the political and philosophical vision of Europe in the second part of the thesis because the history of Europe and its state nowadays was influenced by the cynicism very strongly. I try to explain Sloterdijk's imagination of the way out from this situation.

II Title History interpretation in Fred Wander's literary works Abstract The topic of this diploma thesis is an interpretation of events during the Second World War in Fred Wander's literary work, an important representative of German written literature in the past century. The first chapter presents Fred Wander's life and work and is based on Wander's own autobiography and interviews. The following chapters are dedicated to individual analysis of his three writings: Der siebente Brunnen, Ein Zimmer in Paris and Hotel Baalbek. Wander especially focuses on mediating concrete personal life stories during that epoch. Hotel Haalbek work captures a situation during the first years of the war in the southern France. Der siebente Brunnen describes prisoners' lives in a concentration camp. Wander dedicates Ein Zimmer in Paris work to the topic of how to cope with war experience. The main target of this diploma thesis is about an interpretation of selected themes which are crucial for the mentioned works. It also points to the importance of history rendering in the writings by the author. Keywords Fred Wander, holocaust literature, the Second World War, judaism

This thesis deals with the guerrilla group Brdy - do not like and Francis Holman action within its organization. Resistance group Brdy - Displeasure was established in 1938. Beginning of its activities is associated with John Strap quantified from the village. In the first phase, which lasted until the summer of 1941, members of the organization materially and financially assist families of detainees. In June 1941 he fled from Prague Hořovice displeasure at Jaroslav, who came to arrest by the Gestapo because of his Communist activities in the First Republic. He was one of the accused in spy scandal in the Škoda factories. I do not like the end of 1941, hiding in the Joseph Paška quantified, then a connection with him II. illegal Communist Party central leadership, it becomes the active Member, in his resistance work continues on III bootleg central party leadership. It builds on the cover Újezd of which was controlled by guerrilla activity around Podbrdy. In November 1944 he was arrested by the Gestapo Jaroslav displeasure. In January 1945 is disposed újezdský bunker. The exact date of death of Jaroslav displeasure is not known, probably been beaten to death in early 1945. Francis Holman was one of the Members Horovice Brdy cells - do not like. Together with his colleagues performed the action between...

The purpose of this study is to focus on the destiny of an unknown Jewish poet Ilse Weber (1903-1944). In the first part, the emergence of the Holocaust Literature is presented. The thesis then illustrates the history of the Jewish population in the Czech lands. The main attention is paid to the life and writings of Ilse Weber. She was born in Vítkovice near Ostrava and wrote in German, notably songs, fairy tales and theater pieces for children. During her imprisonment in the Terezín concentration camp she wrote around sixty poems, which were luckily saved. These writings describe the horror of her surroundings. Her husband and the older son survived the war, Ilse and the younger boy were sent to the gas chamber on arrival at Auschwitz in October 1944. In conclusion, the thesis argues that this forgotten poet was an admirable personality, who was able to grasp emotions and give hope to others in hard times. KEYWORDS Holocaust, World War II, literature, Jews, Terezín.

The thesis deals with the signification of art for holistic development of an individual. It also deals with symbol as one of the most important means of expression in art, with symbol in the Bible, in image art and its role in the process of individualization. It includes the characteristic of adolescent age with regard to ability of understanding the symbols. It deals with the theory of the didactic of symbols, the explanation of the meaning of 'second naivety' and the concept of a teaching unit as a practical sample for working with symbols interpreting picture.

1 Abstract A renewal of the fundamental functions of parish in the contemporary society is one of the most discussed issues in the Czechoslovak Hussite Church. This thesis deals with a revitalization of parish. Analysing a process of renewal of three different parishes, it draws general rules for revitalization and proposes steps for its implementation. A particular attention is paid to institutional, economic and pastoral aspects of this process.