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Uranium minig by forced labor in post war Czechoslovakia - Jáchymov study area

SVATOŇOVÁ, Hana

Basic information

Original name

Uranium minig by forced labor in post war Czechoslovakia - Jáchymov study area

Name in Czech

Těžba uranu nesvobodnou pracovní silou v poválečném Československu - studijní prostor Jáchymov

Authors

SVATOŇOVÁ, Hana (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

IGU 2013, 2013

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60101 History

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14410/13:00065811

Organization unit

Faculty of Education

Keywords (in Czech)

těžba uranu, Jáchymov, nesvobodná pracovní síla

Keywords in English

uranium mining; jáchymov; forces labour; prison camps
Změněno: 2/4/2014 21:20, doc. PhDr. Mgr. Hana Pokorná, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

The Czechoslovakia became a source of uranium for the Soviet Union defuse industry after the World War II. Small area in the ore region in the western Czechoslovakia was in the centre of attention of world powers shortly after the war - the landscape around town of Jáchymov was the place of world exclusivity - uranium mining. It was the only place where the USSR could immediately obtain uranium ore and begin development nuclear weapons, especially after the U.S. toppled the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Development of Jáchymov area after the World War II is characterized by an exceptional dynamic processes driven by the interest of USSR: to buy uranium, the removal of the domination German population, the advent of new labour force, involuntary stay of thousands of prisoners of war and political prisoners, building of settlements and prison – concentration camps, open shafts, detailed geological research, creating heaps. The region represents both an example of disappearing traces of human activities as well as an example of mining area transformation. The mining system and the functional mining region were defined for the purposes of geographical research. The model of mining system contains the main objects and relationships between them, functional mining region consist of particular mining system and region. The employment of forced labours was a specific feature of the Jáchymov mining system. Based on research in the field and especially of data archived, we present the entire complex as a special mining system passing through several phases.

Links

IAA300860903, research and development project
Name: Osud české postindustriální krajiny
Investor: Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, The fate of Czech post-industrial landscape