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Newly released documents offer insights into Churchill's plans to avenge a German atrocity against…
Today we look at fascinating wartime documents that reveal Churchill's plans to destroy German villages in revenge for the Nazi massacre in the Czech village of Lidice. We…
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Memories of Jan Palach
It was just at this time of year, 37 years ago, that an unknown 20-year-old Czech student overnight became a focus and symbol of the nation. His name was Jan Palach, and…
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Jan Palach in letters from Radio Prague listeners
In today's special edition of Mailbox we read from listeners' letters dedicated to the memory of Jan Palach, a Czech student who burned himself to death on January 16…
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Young Czechs remember Jan Palach
Every year in the middle of January we remember Jan Palach. On 16th January 1969, five months after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, he dowsed himself with petrol…
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Newly released documents show that Churchill wanted to bomb German villages in revenge for the…
Fascinating wartime documents have just been released in Britain that shed light on one of the dark moments of Czech history. On a June morning in 1942 people in the Nazi…
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Sidonie Nadherna - a writer's and poet's Bohemian muse
Gazing out of the window of a spacious room in a romantic neo-gothic chateau, I see the image of a woman in a beautiful early twentieth century dress sitting on a bench in…
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Jiri Jes - veteran broadcaster looks back on Czechoslovakia's dark century
My guest on this week's One on One is Jiri Jes, a journalist and broadcaster who still appears regularly on Czech Radio at the age of 80. Prevented from writing during the…
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Austerlitz (Slavkov) hosts bicentennial staging of Napoleon's 'greatest' victory
This weekend saw the largest re-enactment of a Napoleonic battle in the history of central Europe. Tens of thousands of people braved the bitter cold on Saturday for the…
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Slavkov (Austerlitz) gears up for re-enactment of Battle of Three Emperors
Friday marks the two-hundredth anniversary of the "Battle of Three Emperors" -- Napoleon's decisive victory over the Austrian and Russian armies on the Moravian plains…
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Frantisek Zahradka - from boyscout to 'class enemy' and a lifetime literally underground
Political prisoners had been forced to work the mines of Czechoslovakia long before the Communists seized power in the "bloodless" coup of February 1948. Under the…
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Czech WWII resistance fighters' remains may still be in use at German medical faculties
The corpses of some of Czechoslovakia's most celebrated war heroes may be serving as models in anatomy classes in Germany and Austria to this day. Thousands of political…
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Czech Radio uncovers long-lost audio from Milada Horakova's trial
The sentencing to death of Czech MP Milada Horakova on trumped up charges of treason at the height of the Stalinist regime in the 1950s will always be one of the most…
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