Mixed Families in the Age of Extremes: Jewish-"Aryan" and Czech-German Couples from Munich to February

For both Nazi Germany and the postwar Czechoslovak government, mixed families posed a fundamental challenge to plans to homogenize the highly integrated population of Bohemia and Moravia. In response, the regimes each imposed contradictory policies that punished intermarried couples and their children while also exempting many of them, either initially or belatedly, from forced removal. From the 1938 Munich Pact to the February 1948 communist coup, Frommer will discuss the diverse paths of mixed families in the Bohemian Lands and what their experiences tell us about national and racially exclusionary politics.