Current Affairs Czechs and Germans: learning to remember a common past
Today Germany is the Czech Republic's biggest trade partner. German tourists are traditionally among the keenest visitors to this country. But relations between the two countries whose history is so interconnected have always been complex. The atrocities of the German occupation during the Second World War and the consequent expulsion of the ethnic German minority from Czechoslovakia still leave a degree of bitterness in the two nations' relations. In order to help create better understanding a Czech-German conference takes place every year in the Czech town of Jihlava.
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