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Before Madeleine Albright turned twelve, her life was shaken by the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia—the country where she was born—the Battle of Britain, the near total destruction of European Jewry, the Allied victory in World War II, the rise of communism, and the onset of the Cold War. Albright's experiences, and those of her family, provide a lens through which to view the most tumultuous dozen years in modern history.

He was called the Hangman of the Gestapo, the "butcher of Prague", with a reputation as a ruthlessly efficient killer. He was the head of the SS, and the Gestapo, second-in-command to Heinrich Himmler. His orders set in motion the Kristallnacht pogrom of 1938 and, as the lead planner of Hitler's Final Solution, he chaired the Wannsee Conference, at which details of the murder of millions of Jews across Nazi-occupied Europe were toasted with cognac.

A charming young Czech promises staggering returns. An entire country’s oil industry is up for grabs. America’s top investors want in. Sounds too good to be true? Damn right it is. This is a story of private jets, $20,000 dinners, and suitcases stuffed with cash. It’s also a tale about the collapse of communism, the free-for-all that followed, and the birth of the oligarchs. And it’s a story of plain-old human greed...of just how far the rich may go to get even richer. Viktor Kožený smooth-talked his super-wealthy Aspen neighbors and a Wall Street titan into investing huge sums of ...

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In 1945, both the U.S. State Department and U.S. Intelligence saw Czechoslovakia as the master key to the balance of power in Europe and as a chessboard for the power-game between East and West. Washington believed that the political scene in Prague was the best available indicator of whether the United States would be able to coexist with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union.

Sechsmal Tschechien – ein Podcast, sechs Folgen, sechs Themen: Klima und Umwelt, Tschechiens Beziehung zu Russland, die Rechte der LGBTQIA+ und die Lage/Situation der Minderheiten. Wie steht die Gesellschaft zur EU - zu Flucht und Migration? Wir bieten einen Einblick in aktuelle politische Debatten. Wir ordnen ein: Mehr als 30 Jahre liegt die Samtene Revolution nun zurück: Wo steht unser Nachbarland jetzt – welche Weichen stellt es für die Zukunft? Sechsmal Tschechien - ein Podcast der Sächsischen Landeszentrale für politische Bildung und von Radio Prague International.