“Just over two weeks after the death of Vaclav Havel, another Czech literary figure who played a key role in his country’s Communist-era dissident movement, Josef Skvorecky, died of cancer Tuesday. He was 87.”
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Josef Škvorecký (1924 – 2012)
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Czech Republic, Czechoslowakia, jazz, Josef Škvorecký, Literature, National Socialism, obituary, publishing on 6 January 2012 by delclemParis, 1940-44: “one big romp”?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags France, Germany, National Socialism, occupation, Paris, sexual liberation, World War Two on 4 October 2011 by delclem“A new book which suggests that the German occupation of France encouraged the sexual liberation of women has shocked a country still struggling to come to terms with its troubled history of collaboration with the Nazis.” >> READ MORE
(c) Patrick Buisson & The Sunday Times, 2008/2011
Neglecting the Lithuanian Holocaust?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Communism, Holocaust, Lithuania, National Socialism, Second World War, Timothy Snyder on 31 July 2011 by delclemAn article by the historian Timothy Snyder (Yale University)
who published the controversial & thought-provoking book Bloodlands recently
(c) NYR, 2011



