Slavs and non-Slavs in Eastern Europe

Prague-born Andreas Wesserle, with a PhD in Political Science, International Studies and History, explains the make-up, or mix-up, of national groups in this contentious area. Topics include:

• Kollar and the Pan-Slav Conference of 1848;
• Distinctions among the Poles, Lithuanians, Hungarians, Czechs and Romanians;
• Polish expansionism from 1919-1939 resulted in cruel persecutions and forced flight of one and a half million Germans; also Hungarians, Ukranians and others;
• Migration west to east since 12th century brought commerce, culture and new creativity into the eastern regions;
• Influence of Holy Roman Empire on German national character;
• And more.

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The Heretics’ Hour: Guernica–Legend vs. Fact

Carolyn Yeager discusses:

• Obama and Jews in the White House
• Elie Wiesel’s fund-raising
• The Revenge of the Neanderthals
• The truth about the Guernica “terror bombing”

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The Heretics’ Hour: Wilhelm Kriessmann’s memoir of 1925-1938

Carolyn talks with Dr. Kriessmann about his book When I was a Schoolteacher’s Boy, a chronicle of his youth in Feistritz im Rosental (Austria) during the turbulent years between the World Wars. Topics include:

• A nationalist family
• School fraternities and the Hitler Youth
• The Austrian Anchluss, the culmination of hopes

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Guest: Wilfried Heink. The Long Road to Czechoslovakia. The beginnings of this man-made, doomed-to-fail state go back to 1871.

Guest: Rudi Pueschel. How the newly created nation of Czechoslovia persecuted the Sudetan Germans after WWI and new evidence the Brtish were the main force behind it.