Sudeten Ghosts
Sudeten Ghosts
Author(s): Derek SayerSubject(s): Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Government/Political systems, International relations/trade, Migration Studies, Sociology of Politics, Politics and Identity, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Czech Republic; political history; 20th century; presidential elections; Miloš Zeman; Jiří Drahoš; Syrian refugees; migrant crisis; government;
Summary/Abstract: This was written three months after Germany occupied the Sudetenland following the Munich Agreement. Three months later Czechoslovakia was dismembered and Bohemia and Moravia occupied and turned into a Protectorate of the Third Reich. Milena Jesenská was arrested in November 1939. She died in Ravensbrück concentration camp in May 1943. Today, almost 100 years after Czechoslovakia declared independence from Austria-Hungary, over 70 years after the country was liberated from Nazi occupation, and 28 years after the Velvet Revolution ended 42 years of communism, history veers off down another inimitably Czech country lane. [...]
- Issue Year: 26/2018
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 129-131
- Page Count: 3
- Language: English
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