History
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Roma Holocaust exhibit in Prague
An exhibit devoted to the history of the Roma and Sinti Holocaust has opened in Prague's National Gallery. Entitled "The Roma Holocaust: the genocide of Roma and Sinti and…
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Intelligence service offers Internet users unique glimpse into Communist-era espionage practices
For the first time ever internet users have been given access to formerly top secret documentation compiled by Czechoslovakia's Communist secret intelligence - which spied…
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Wroclaw: a city with roots in Bohemia
This week the Czech translation of one of the most fascinating and widely discussed books on the history of Central Europe to be published in recent years went onto the…
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Czechs discuss holocaust denial at public forum
The issue of Holocaust denial hit the headlines again recently due to the highly publicized trial of well-known Holocaust denier David Irving in Austria earlier this year…
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Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin
Late 1943. The cold barracks of the Terezin ghetto stand against an autumn sky. Although deportations to the camp had come to a standstill earlier in the year, the…
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Nazi wartime secrets revealed in castle well
Surrounded by the charming Brdy Forests in Western Bohemia, Zbiroh Chateau really catches the eye of anyone who visits. With its rich history and impressive Neo…
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The graves of hundreds of "White Czechs" restored in Vladivostok
In September 1920, the last Czechoslovak legionnaires, who fought alongside the Allies in Russia during the First World War, and then found themselves caught up in the…
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Echoes of Broumov's lost German community in new photo exhibition
A new exhibition of photographs opened in the town of Broumov this weekend, depicting the region's unique geography and cultural heritage. Broumov and the surrounding…
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Antonin Langweil - a man who built his own Prague
In today's Czechs in History we are going to look at Antonin Langweil and his unique paper model of Prague. The model, on a scale of 1:480, takes up an area of two-by-two…
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National Archive analysing new Milada Horakova documents
The National Archive in Prague recently received new material donated by Jana Kanska, the daughter of Milada Horakova, the Czech resistance movement hero in World War II…
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61 years on - the Czech Republic commemorates the end of WWII
On Monday the Czech Republic commemorated the 61st anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Over the weekend, ceremonies were held all over the country in honour of…
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Frantisek Perina - Czechoslovakia's ace pilot who made his name in the Battle of France
Anyone acquainted with Czech military history will likely have heard of ace pilot Frantisek Perina - who fought with distinction for Czechoslovakia in both the Battles of…
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