This thesis deals with the life of the German population in the small town of Vimperk in the first half of the twentieth century. The first part describes the emergence of the town and then depicts the life of its population in the period since the Czechoslovak Republic, ie.from 1918, through World War II to the following expulsion of the German population until the end of the year 1946. The thesis tries to answer the question, why some Germans were allowed to stay in post-war Czechoslovakia and were not expelled. The second part is devoted to the German minority, which still lives in Vimperk and also to those who left it and now live on the other side of the border in the nearby town of Freyung. This part consists of a transcript of collected interviews with some of the contemporary witnesses that are being compared to each other and analyzed regarding the period of the expulsion.
