Dr. Martin Brown To Give Paper

14/09/2008

On Wednesday Dr Martin D. Brown will be giving a paper at an international conference marking the 70th anniversary of the Munich Agreement in 1938, and the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Communist government in Czechoslovakia in 1948. His paper is entitled: ‘Is “Transfer” merely a euphemism for “Ethnic Cleansing”? From the Munich to the Potsdam Agreements: the origins of a concept and the evolution of a debate’.

The conference, ‘Exile in and from Czechoslovakia during the 1930s and 1940s’, will be held in London 17 to 19 September 2008, organised by the Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London.

Conference Paper

The Polish peer-reviewed journal, Przeglad Zachodni [Western Review], has recently published an article by Dr Brown on this subject:

M. D. Brown, „Desperackie lekarstwo”. Brytyjskie Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych, Wenzel Jaksch i „kwestia sudetoniemiecka” (pazdziernik 1938 – grudzien 1945)’ [‘“A desperate remedy”: The British Foreign Office, Wenzel Jaksch and the ‘Sudeten German question’, 1938 to 1945’], Przeglad Zachodni [Western Review], vol. 327, no. 2 (2008), pp. 45-70.

Link: Poznan

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