PRAGUE – The Iron Curtain was traced by an electrified barbed-wire fence that isolated the communist world from the West. It was an impenetrable Cold War barrier — and for some inhabitants of the ...

In the wake of World War I, the Treaty of Versailles had ceded territory called the Sudetenland, a region where German speakers predominated, to the newly formed country of Czechoslovakia. German ...

IT was in the ‘works hotel’ of a mighty iron and steelworks in a district where Czechs, Germans, and Poles were living together in close community. My host, a prominent engineer of the steelworks, ...

Students of national psychology know how much the fairy tales of each nation are the expression of national psychology, and to what extent they are an expression of fear and desire. It seems that the ...

West German officials were informed today by Czechoslovakia that it will soon present a list of former Gestapo officers now presumed to be living in West Germany with a formal request for their ...

In mid-February, Ukrainian forces were forced to withdraw from Avdiivka, signaling the first major Russian victory since the capture of Bakhmut in May 2023. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has ...

The German and Czech governments are in talks on a weapons deal to ship older Soviet-era battle tanks and other equipment to Ukraine in exchange for modern German-made Leopard 2A4 tanks and other ...

Thousands of Czechoslovakians last week went to bed with gas masks at their bedsides. By law, every Czech citizen in cities must possess a gas mask before the end of June, and last week, reported ...

An ample-waisted Czech waitress soon brought along two large mugs of beer, and my host introduced me to his friends who were seated round a big table. They were apparently all Sudeten Germans, for ...