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SpecialSir Nicholas Winton and the human cost of "peace for our time".
It was 69 years ago this week, just after midnight on the night from 29th
to 30th September 1938, that the British Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain, his French counterpart, Edouard Daladier, Hitler and
Mussolini, signed the Munich Agreement. It is now remembered as the most
notorious symbol of Chamberlain's tragically flawed policy of appeasement.
The "piece of paper" which he waved on his return to Heston
Aerodrome, just west of London, was to be a guarantee of "peace for
our time", and Czechoslovakia was the price that was to be paid, as
the four most powerful men in Europe agreed to allow Nazi Germany to annex
a large part of the country. The next day, German troops marched unopposed
into the Sudetenland, the mainly German-speaking border regions of
Czechoslovakia.
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This week in Mailbox: the village of Lidice in Central Bohemia, where is
the Red River Valley mentioned in a song featured in SoundCzech, a
restoration project discussed in Insight Central Europe, and what colour
is the red squirrel? Listeners quoted: Elizabeth Funnekotter, Charles
Chambers, Dick Derksen, Aloisie Krasny, Paul Kail.
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Current AffairsThe Lidice massacre after 65 years
On the morning of Wednesday, 10 June, 1942, the village of Lidice, about 20
km North-West of Prague, was destroyed in retaliation for the assassination
of Reinhard Heydrich, the highest ranking Nazi official in the Protectorate
of Bohemia and Moravia. Sixty-five years after the massacre, some lesser
known facts are still emerging.
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Current AffairsAnonymous group to erect "unofficial" memorial to Heydrich assassins
It's 65 years since the assassination of the Reichsprotektor of
Nazi-controlled Bohemia and Moravia Reinhard Heydrich, but surprisingly,
there is no monument in Prague to mark the event. That, however, could be
about to change, as a group of people plan to unveil a memorial - without
the permission of the Prague authorities.
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Current AffairsUS veteran recalls last days of WW II in Czechoslovakia
This Tuesday saw the 62nd anniversary of V-E day which marked the end of
World War II In Europe. Harold Yeglin, a US GI at the time, was then part
of the 97th Infantry Division which had secured parts of Czechoslovakia.
His company was in the west of the country when the war in Europe ended on
May 8th. As a result of his wartime experience he has continued to follow
events in the Czech Republic since.
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