Abstract
Czechoslovak migrants and displaced Czech Germans in the late 1940s and early 1950s in the context of life in refugee camps. The vast majority of people who fled Czechoslovakia after the February coup of 1948 passed through German refugee camps, and there was mutual interaction between the two groups.
The resulting situation was rather paradoxical: in the refugee camps of post-war Germany, the victims of forced displacement met with the people who caused this displacement but eventually found themselves in the same situation. The study tries to determine to what extent did the legacy of the past affect the relationships between Sudeten Germans and Czechoslovak migrants in West Germany and whether reconciliation or cooperation was possible - and under which conditions.