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Jirina Siklova - from sociologist to dissident smuggler to pre-emancipated feminist
Prague :: Czech Republic | 10 months ago
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Born in 1935 in Prague, Siklova studied history and philosophy at Charles University. As a member of the Czech Communist Party, she became a key voice in the reform efforts that culminated in the Prague Spring. She left the party after the Soviet
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Hitler's Mercedes? Auto dealer's shock at discovering vintage car he bought from eBay was built for Nazi officers
Berlin :: Germany | 10 months ago
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09 Click to rate Rating (0) Have ridden in one of Adenauer's Mercedes. Dragonhead, New Zealand, 10/7/2012 04:29 Click to rate Rating (0) heydrich....failed assassination attempt....really....he didnt die of a cold you know.......!!!! -
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In Transit Blog: A Firsthand Look At the Gun That Shot J. R.
Prague :: Czech Republic | 11 months ago
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Search This Blog Search Follow This Blog Recent Posts June 16 Thanks to TNT's reboot of "Dallas," Southfork Ranch has been welcoming more visitors than ever. June 15 A famous patissier creates a dessert menu for the Japanese airlines All Nippon
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National Archives publish wartime propaganda in online gallery
London :: United Kingdom | 11 months ago
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National Archives Winston Churchill with a jowl or two flatteringly removed, a fierce group of women in pinnies marching out under the banner "Up housewives and at 'em!" to recycle their domestic waste into "planes, guns, tanks, ships & ammunition",
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Himmler's Brain
Prague :: Czech Republic | 12 months ago
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Himmler's second-in-command, Reinhard Heydrich, figures importantly in the Longerich biography, and so I read with special interest the much-talked-about novel by Laurent Binet, HHhH (Farrar, Straus and Giroux: $26), translated from the French by Sam
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Exhibition on Heydrich assassination opens in Israeli Parliament
Tel Aviv :: Israel | 12 months ago
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While the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich is one of the most significant events in modern Czech history, the story of how the governor of the occupied Czech lands was killed is relatively unknown in Israel despite the fact that Heydrich was one of
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Knesset Exhibit: 70 Years Since Elimination of Heydrich
Prague :: Czech Republic | 12 months ago
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The exhibition also deals with the broad relationship between the Czechs and the Jews in the 20th century.
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HHhH, By Laurent Binet (trs by Sam Taylor)
Kiev :: Ukraine | 12 months ago
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Laurent Binet knew what he wanted to avoid when he embarked on his debut novel, which is about the assassination attempt in Prague in May 1942 of the head of the Gestapo, Reinhard Heydrich, by a Czech and a Slovak, Jan Kubis and Josef Gabcik. Binet
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HHhH, by Laurent Binet
Vancouver :: Canada | 12 months ago
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EDT It is both easier and harder now to remember the Second World War. Information and images abound, but fading is an immediate reason to bother looking. As the current generation of grandparents passes, so passes the vital connection, our living
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HHhH by Laurent Binet – review
Prague :: Czech Republic | 1 year ago
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Keystone France/Gamma/Getty Images A breezily charming novel, with a thrilling story that also happens to be true, by a gifted young author amusingly anguished over the question of how to tell it In principle there's nothing not to like about Laurent
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