Talk:Charles University

message: I am not familiar with the individual case of Karl Deutsch in relation to why he left a particular university, but I know that he, like all the people that became part of the newly created country of Czechoslovakia had been Austrian citizens (Austro-Hungarian empire) until the lands of Bohemia and Moravia were taken from Austria to create the new country.  The new country Czechoslovakia was made up of three ethnicities (all of whom were formerly Austrian citizens), Czechs being the largest group, Austrians (also referred to as Germans), being the second largest group and Slovaks the third largest group.  The Austrians (Germans) made up about 20% of the population.  The ethnic rivalries that existed prior to the creation of Czechoslovakia continued to exist after its creation, but now the Czech ethnic group was in the majority and recent scholarly books have finally portrayed a realistic picture of what the country was like.  It wasn't the innocent, defenseless little democracy that English and Americans spoke of in the 1930's.  When the country was created the Czechs made sure they would be in control and the Germans and Slovaks would be subservient to them and these other groups resented this.  Its quite possible Karl Deutsch was forbidden to teach at the university because he was as ethnic German.
But the entire article is biased from the beginning; but considering its by wikipedia and Germans are part of the subject it's not surprising.  The article says "In the revolution of 1848, German and Czech students fought for the addition of the Czech language at the Charles-Ferdinand University as a language of lectures. Due to the demographic changes of the 19th century, Prague ceased to have a German-language majority around 1860. By 1863, 22 lecture courses were held in Czech, the remainder (out of 187) in German. In 1864, Germans suggested the creation of a separate Czech university. Czech professors rejected this because they did not wish to lose the continuity of university traditions."  But this statement is the first mentioning of the languages used since the university was created in the fourteenth century.  Prague was founded by Germans and the German language was the primary language used in Prague and at the university until the nineteenth century, when the ethnic makeup of the city changed, as the article says.
The ethnic tensions continued and then the Austrian Adolf Hitler sent German troops into Czechoslovakia in 1938.  This was used as an excuse to ratchet up the propaganda against Germany, in preparation for war against them.  Germany was at the same time arguing for the rights of ethnic Germans that had been dispersed throughout eastern Europe when large areas of land was taken from Germany and Austria to create new countries in 1919.  Czechoslovakia had never existed as a country before.
In 1945 at the end of WW II, the German population of 3.5 million people were brutally expelled from their homes in Czechoslovakia as part of the biggest ethnic cleansing operation in history when in total, over fourteen million (possibly as high as twenty million) Germans were expelled from their homes and cities and parts of Europe that had always been German in culture and population, but were suddenly completely depopulated and repopulated with people that had never lived there before.  Nothing on this this scale had ever happened in history, before or since.
The Slovaks were not happy with their position in Czechoslovakia in the 1930's either.  They were able to finally break away and form their own state in 1993.Pgg804 (talk) 02:01, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Austrian Prague 

message: Shanghai Ranking compares 1200 higher education institutions, not 17000. So the University is in upper 10-11% not 1.5%. Can somebody correct it, in another languages as well?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Smirnoff 80 (talk • contribs) 07:26, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shanghai Ranking 

message: The lists of alumni and notable academics are split between the Czech University and the German University. However, many alumni and academics of the German University are (it seems falsely) associated with the Czech University, like, for example, three of the four listed Nobel laureates, Albert Einstein, Carl Ferdinand Cori, and Gerty Cori. I don't have the time and resources to figure out the correct association of everyone on the list, but this should be fixed.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.96.222.23 (talk) 15:15, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alumni and Academics 

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message: What is the connection between the University  insigniae and Polish troops in Zaolzie? Xx236 (talk) 09:28, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  as did Polish and Hungarian troops elsewhere 

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message: Should a seperate article for the mass shooting on 21 December be created? BasedGigachad (talk) 01:54, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
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