Birkenau prison camp, 270, 276, 282
Bismarck, Otto von, 15
Blanka (governess), 352
Bohemia, 3
Age of Royalty in, 25
Catholics vs. Protestants in, 21–25, 36
in Czechoslovak Republic, 45
and democracy, 31
education in, 26, 137–38
German control of, 15
in history, 17–21
industries in, 34, 61–62
Jewish community in, 27, 34–35
literacy rate in, 34
nationalists, 29–34
Protectorate of (map), 201
uranium in, 353–54
Bohlen, Charles, 304
Boii people, 18
Boleslav, 19
Bolshevik Revolution, 41, 68, 262
Bormann, Martin, 202
Boromejsky, Karel, 222, 224
Bosnia-Herzegovina, 36
Brandeis, Louis, 67
Brandon, Henry, 392
Bratislava, Slovakia, 26
Braun, Wernher von, 298
Brecht, Bertolt, 228
Březina, Otokar, 412–13
British Empire League, 232
Buber, Martin, Three Addresses in Prague, 191
Buchenwald concentration camp, 276n, 305
Bullitt, William, 86
Byrnes, James, 358
Cadogan, Alexander, 127, 160, 302
and German threats, 84, 92, 93, 104
and World War II, 148, 151, 153, 290
Canada, uranium in, 353
Čapek, Karel, 370–71
A Prayer for Tonight, 115
Carmio, Mica, 276n
Carpathian Ruthenia, 45
Casablanca, 256
Čech, 18
Chamberlain, Neville, 68, 127, 147, 149
and appeasement, 71, 83–84, 88, 92, 95–97, 106, 119, 121, 125, 158
Czechoslovakia abandoned by, 81–83, 92, 105–6
and deterrence, 125, 126
meetings with Hitler, 88–91, 92–93, 125, 194, 264, 303
and Munich Conference, 97–99, 98, 105, 107, 119, 122, 296
and Plan Z, 88
resignation of, 150
and World War II, 149–50
Channel Islands, 142
Charles Bridge, Prague, 20
Charles IV, king of Bohemia, 20–21
Charles University, Prague, 20, 21, 31, 34, 51, 376, 400
Chekhov, Anton, 35
Christian X, king of Denmark, 271
Churchill, Winston S., 4, 149, 295
and Beneš, 102, 120, 187–89, 195
career of, 150–51
and elections, 337
and Hitler, 67–68, 164–65
and Hopkins, 182, 185
and Munich agreement, 106
oratory of, 153–54
and Prague, 317
as prime minister, 150, 158
and Roosevelt, 152, 229, 256
and Soviet Union, 126, 194, 303
visit to Czechoslovak troops, 187–88, 188
and World War II, 120, 151–54, 166, 173, 176, 229, 290, 292, 297
at Yalta, 301–5, 302, 315
Clementis, Vladimir “Vlado,” 148, 327, 404
arrest and death of, 405
and Communist Party, 295, 313, 397
government position of, 313, 326, 357, 392, 405
and Masaryk’s death, 397
and Paris Peace Conference, 357, 359
Clinton administration, 2
Cold War, 358, 361, 376–78, 406
Czechoslovakia’s place in, 4, 381, 386, 403
Iron Curtain, 403, 411
nuclear arms race, 354
power politics in, 351, 365–67, 370–71
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 296
Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur, “A Scandal in Bohemia,” 29
Congo, uranium in, 353
Cromwell, Oliver, 150
Čurda, Karel, 215, 223–24, 225, 227, 342–43
Curie, Marie, 353
Czarska, Isobel Alicia, 8
Czech and Slovak Legion, 41–43, 58, 78
Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry, Korbel’s work for, 53
birthrate in, 138–39
and Bohemia, see Bohemia
borders of, 134, 160, 168, 186, 386
Charter 77, 387n
cinema in, 136–37
and Cold War, 4, 381, 386, 403
Communist show trials in, 405
Communists in, 295, 309–10, 313–14, 321, 344–47, 353, 354–55, 363–67, 371, 372–74, 376–84, 386, 388, 389–90, 394, 395–96, 398, 401, 404–5
and democracy, 31, 340, 344, 354, 366, 372, 378, 383
education in, 137–38, 141
elections in, 354–55, 363, 372, 373–74, 377–78, 380
German invasion of, 13–16, 14, 238
Germanization of, 138
German occupation of, 16, 16, 97–100, 100, 101, 108, 112–14, 117, 126, 129–41, 160, 200–202, 207–10, 213–18, 325
Germans expelled from, 229–36, 260, 262, 264, 324–25, 331–43
government collapse in, 377–84, 385–86, 388, 400–401
government in exile, see England
Hungarians ousted from, 358–60, 365
interim government of, 313–16
military in exile, 161–63, 187–88, 196, 321
nationalists, 29–34, 36, 38–39, 40, 138, 354–55, 412
National Solidarity (NS), 130
and Paris Peace Conference (1946), 357–60, 365
puppet government, see Hácha, Emil
recognition sought by, 119–22, 185–86, 188–89, 195, 256
republic, see Czechoslovak Republic; Czech Republic
role of the press in, 52–53, 186
and Soviet Union, 256–65, 293–96, 304, 313–15, 319, 353–54, 365–66, 372, 405
troops withdrawn from, 352–53
underground and Resistance, 130, 131–35, 157, 196–97, 199–202, 207–10, 213–18, 226–27, 235, 258, 264, 325, 342
and uranium, 353–54
Velvet Divorce, 411–12
Velvet Revolution, 2, 134n, 387n, 400, 411
and war crimes, 340–43
Czecho-Slovakia:
after Munich, 108–9, 110–11
map, 109
Slovakia, see Slovakia
Czechoslovak Institute, 186
Czechoslovak Republic:
abandoned by Allies, 81–83, 86, 90–92, 99, 101, 102, 104, 107–8
armaments industry in, 73–74, 126, 137, 155
borders of, 44-46; map (1919–1938), 46; 74, 87, 97, 98, 108
Communists in, 79
diversity in, 45–46, 65, 340
espionage in, 74, 90, 110, 130, 161, 196
fascism in, 65, 66
first decade of, 46–48
French treaties with, 60, 78, 81, 85, 256, 364
German threats to, 78, 81–97
independence of, 40–45, 117, 340, 370
and Little Entente, 55
mobilization for war, 94, 95, 99, 101
and Munich agreement, 97–99, 101, 108
and Munich what-ifs, 102–6
and Paris Peace Conference (1919), 44–45, 55
and Soviet Union, 55–56, 60, 78, 79, 81, 90, 95, 194–96
Sudeten Germans in, 46, 62–66, 73, 74–75, 77–78, 82–83, 84–93, 230
Sudeten nationalists in, 62–65, 66
U.S. recognition of, 43–44
willingness to fight, 101–2, 104, 108, 112–13, 179–80, 195, 320
and W
orld War I, 40, 117
Czech Republic:
Korbel family research in, 237
and Velvet Divorce, 411–12
Dachau prison camp, 111
Daladier, Édouard, 83, 85, 94, 264
and Munich conference, 97–99, 98, 105
Danish Red Cross, 271–72
Davenport, Marcia, 360–61, 365, 385, 387, 388–89, 391, 397, 398
D-Day, 289
de Gaulle, Charles, 256
Deiml, Rudolf (uncle), 111, 124, 140, 273
rumors of survival, 323, 327
sent to gas chambers, 279, 281, 327
at Terezín, 249, 269, 277
transport to Auschwitz, 277–79
Deimlová, Dagmar “Dáša” (Šimová) (cousin), 9, 111, 123, 403–4
in England, 156, 157, 159, 190, 233, 287
and her father, 323, 327
letters from home, 140, 141
move to England, 123–25
return to Prague, 322–23, 326–27
and Winton reenactment, 124–25
Deimlová, Margarethe “Greta” (aunt), 111, 124, 140, 141–42, 241, 249–50, 273, 281
Deimlová, Milena (cousin), 111, 123–24, 123, 140–41
drawing by, 251–52, 252
at Terezín, 249–52, 266, 269, 272, 273
transport to Auschwitz, 280–81
Demetz, Peter, 58
Dicker-Brandeis, Friedl, 251, 279
Dobbs, Michael, 2
Doppler, Christian, 34
Drábek, Jaroslav, 342
Drtina, Prokop, 53, 365, 386–87
as democrat, 364, 373, 379
and government collapse, 379, 382
and government in exile, 161, 168
in London, 156–57, 178–79, 386
memoir of, 6, 157
as minister of justice, 332, 347, 379
and Resistance, 131, 157, 386
suicide attempt of, 387, 392, 397
Dvořák, Antonin:
New World Symphony, 408
Requiem, 283
Ealing Studios, 233
Eden, Anthony, 120, 167, 176, 188, 195, 236, 315
Edward VIII, former king of England, 68
Ehrmann, Alice, 280
Eichmann, Adolf, 111, 203, 205, 207, 271, 274, 281
Einstein, Albert, 34
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 316, 317, 319–20, 326, 366
Eliáš, Alois, 130, 195, 200–201
Elizabeth, Princess (future Elizabeth II), 177
Elizabeth, Queen (wife of George VI), 167, 167
England:
and appeasement, 71, 86, 88, 95–97, 119, 158
Battle of Britain, 154, 169–79, 181, 183–84, 291
British Expeditionary Force, 153
and Chamberlain, see Chamberlain, Neville
children evacuated from, 143–44, 291
and Churchill, see Churchill, Winston S.
Czechoslovak government in exile in, 4, 8, 75, 110, 118–22, 125–26, 144, 147, 160–64, 162, 163, 168, 185–89, 191, 195, 219, 226, 230–31, 235, 256, 258, 270, 294, 303, 406
and deterrence, 125, 126
Dunkirk, 153, 155
and espionage, 290
and France, 88, 89, 90
and German threats to Czechoslovakia, 78, 81–85, 90–92, 94–95
and Hitler, 67–69, 71, 77, 148, 154, 164–68, 169, 173, 181, 193
and Hitler-Stalin pact, 127
Kindertransport to, 122–25
Korbel family in, 4, 117, 125–26, 156–59, 177, 286–92, 305, 404
Korbel family’s move to, 110, 112, 113–14
and lend-lease, 182–85
London Blitz, 173–79, 181, 183, 184–85, 189, 203–4
and Munich Conference, 97–99, 98, 101, 105–6, 107, 158, 304
and Norway, 149–50
peace desired by, 69–71, 84
and Poland, 125, 126, 303
political refugees in, 125–26, 139–40, 144
and preludes to war, 83-84, 127, 166–68, 170
propaganda in, 149, 184
and Soviet Union, 126, 194, 303
Surrey docks bombed, 174, 175
Underground shelters in, 175–76, 176
U.S. aid to, 152, 182–85
U.S. troops in, 288–89
V-1’s dropped on, 289–92
V-2’s dropped on, 296–98
weaknesses of, 69–71, 83–84
and World War I, 69–70, 142–43
and World War II, 142–54, 166, 169–81, 289–92, 296–98
Enlightenment, 29
Fairbanks, Douglas, 48
Fejfar, Stanislav, 179–80
Ferdinand, Archduke, 40, 205
Ferdinand, Habsburg emperor, 25
Fierlinger, Zdenĕk, 78–79, 90, 261, 309–10, 353, 355, 373
Finland, Soviet invasion of, 148–49
Fodor, Lieutenant, 317
France:
and Beneš, 55, 75, 78, 85
Czech treaties with, 60, 78, 81, 85, 256, 364
D-Day in, 289
and England, 88, 89, 90
and German threats to Czechoslovakia, 78, 83, 85–86, 88, 90–92, 94–95
Maginot Line, 85, 149, 151, 264
and Munich Conference, 97–99, 98, 101, 105, 107–8
and preludes to war, 85, 127
and Rhineland, 57, 77, 105
and Soviet Union, 55, 85, 90, 107–8
and Versailles treaty, 57, 105
and World War I, 85
and World War II, 142, 149, 151, 152–53, 154–55, 161, 169, 172, 193, 299–301
Frank, Anne, 276n
Frank, Karl Hermann “K. H.,” 138, 199, 199, 225, 342, 346
Frank, Margot, 276n
František, Josef, 180
Freemasons, discrimination against, 130
Friedrich, Prince (Germany), 25
Gabčík, Jozef (Little Ota), 164, 208–10, 208, 214–17, 221, 222, 223
Gallipoli campaign, 151
Gandhi, Mohandas K. (Mahatma), 70, 151
George VI, king of England, 150, 177, 185
Germany:
and Anschluss, 77, 86, 203
East Germany liberated, 411
education in, 65–66
and espionage, 90
and fascism, 71, 75, 83
Gestapo, 203
Hitler-Stalin pact, 126–27, 162, 187, 194, 196
Luftwaffe, 70, 83, 169–73, 178, 189
military strength of, 83–84
and Munich Conference, 97–99, 98, 100, 105
Nazi rise to power in, 70–71
Nuremberg meeting, 86–87, 88
propaganda from, 78, 86, 87, 102, 147, 235, 265
territorial ambitions of, 57, 61–62, 77–78, 137, 154–55, 193–96, 232; see also specific nations
U-boats, 292
V-1’s, 289–92
V-2’s, 296–98
and wars, see World War I; World War II
see also Hitler, Adolf
Ginz, Petr, 252–53, 277–79
Ginzová, Eva, 306
Gluck, Alma, 360
Goebbels, Josef, 78, 137
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 53, 66, 75
Goldberger, Emmanuel, 336–37
Goldstücker, Eduard, 286, 404–6
Göring, Hermann, 15, 112, 164, 169, 173
Gottwald, Klement:
and Beneš, 263–64, 386, 388, 401
and Communist Party, 263–64, 310, 354, 355, 363, 372, 374, 379–80, 382–83, 386, 388
death of, 406, 407
and elections, 355, 363, 372, 374
and expulsion of Sudeten Germans, 264, 332
and government takeover, 377–84, 385–86, 388, 389, 400, 401
and Korbel, 377–78, 389–90
and Masaryk’s death, 395–97
meetings to organize the government, 310, 345
in Moscow, 263, 295, 310, 364
and Munich agreement, 264, 386
and Soviet Union, 263, 353, 354, 363, 364, 397, 405
and Stalinist purges, 405
Gottwald, Marta, 351
Grandmother, The (Nĕmcová), 4, 137, 415
Grant Duff, Shiela, Europe and the Czechs, 121–22
Great Britain, see England
Great Depression, 56, 62
Great Moravian Empire, 26–27
Great War, see World War I
Greece, 189, 370
Grenfell-Baines, Milena, 123, 124
Gunther, John, 183
Haakon VII, king of Norway, 195
Habsburg empire, 23–24, 40, 376
Hácha, Emil:
and crown of Wenceslas, 198, 199
and German invasion, 110–11
and German occupation, 15, 112, 129–30, 195, 202
and Heydrich assassination, 219
as president, 108, 129, 130, 160, 189, 227
Hachenburg, Hanuš, “Terezín,” 211
Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia, 195
Halifax, Edward Wood, Lord, 68–69, 77, 82, 84, 89, 90, 96, 127, 150, 165
Hangmen Also Die! (movie), 228
Hašek, Jaroslav, 41
Havel, Miloš, 137
Havel, Václav, 9–10, 344, 414
childhood drawing by, 136, 136
on collective guilt, 339–40, 402
death of, 9
on liberation of Prague, 320–21
and Velvet Revolution, 2, 400
Havlíček, Karel, 31, 35
Haw-Haw, William Joyce, Lord, 165–66
Hebrang, Andrija, 404
Heine, Heinrich, 248
Henderson, Sir Nevile, 88
Henlein, Konrad, 103
flight of, 87
and German invasion of Sudetenland, 108
and Masaryk, 64
pro-Nazi stance of, 62–63, 64, 74–75, 77, 83, 84–85, 88, 109, 343
propaganda campaign instigated by, 75, 83, 86
and Slovak separatists, 109
and Sudeten German Heimat Front, 62–63, 74–75
suicide of, 343
war aims of, 75, 77–78, 83, 86
Henry V, king of England, 69
Herman, Daniel, 8
Herodotus, 165n
Herzl, Theodor, 35
Hess, Alexander, 179
Heydrich, Reinhard, 199–203, 410
as acting protektor, 199, 200–203
assassination of, 207–10, 216–19, 226–28
brutality of, 200–201, 230