The British public celebrated their relief that war had been, for the present, avoided. However, there was growing concern that Hitler was not, as Chamberlain believed, just another politician who ...

The Wellington had a six-man Czech crew, five of whom died. It was downed by a German night fighter, crashing at Nieuwe Niedorp, a village about 60km (37 miles) north of Amsterdam. It had been ...

The photo of 19-year-old Ivana is appropriate for 1968, when Soviet tanks roared into Czechoslovakia overnight, I thought. I wondered when it had been taken. "Oh it's nothing to do with the ...

The Czech Republic declassified highly classified documents as part of its effort to unveil the history of communist Czechoslovakia. Koura’s report, which names Greek Cypriots that were ...

The impact of the German invasion of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 brought an end to Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement policy. Chamberlain offered to help Poland if it was attacked by Germany ...

The agreement, which allowed Hitler to annex the part of Czechoslovakia known as the Sudetenland, has been branded a “betrayal.” Hitler then proceeded to invade the rest of the country in 1939.

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 ...