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Střed. Časopis pro mezioborová studia Střední Evropy 19. a 20. století. / Centre. Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies of Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
The article provides a comparison of two monuments - one of František Palacký in Prague and second of Theodor Mommsen in Berlin. Both men were key historians of their nations in 19th century. Palacký has offered a master-narrative of Czech national past in his famous book The History of Czech Nation in Bohemia and Moravia and set the main structures of narrating Czech history for two centuries. Theodor...
Up to 9,000 Italian soldiers are believed to have been massacred by the German Army (Wehrmacht) on the Greek island of Cephalonia in September 1943, after Italy had switched to the Allied side in the World War II. Yet, until the end of 1990’s, the tragic event was completely ignored by the (Western) German public. The first attempt to break the silence was made by Der Spiegel magazine in December...
The article deals with commemorations of the death of Tomáš G. Masaryk, the first president of Czechoslovakia. The funeral, its organization, and the location of Masaryk’s grave reflected a new – predominantly nationalist-military-legionnaire – concept of the traditions of the Czechoslovak state. In the politically turbulent Europe of the late 1930s, it provided an opportunity to solidify the Czechoslovak...
The article analyses the “Iron Curtain” as a Czech site of memory. The official communist narrative denied the Western term “Iron Curtain” and asserted the legalistic argumentation of “state borders protection” supported by nationalistic and ideological arguments. After the fall of the regime in 1989 and the opening of the state borders, the Western “Iron Curtain” paradigm was adopted by the democratizing...
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