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Lauder, Silvie
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2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Resistance fighter too anti-German
The president of the Czech Association of Resistance Fighters, Anděla Dvořáková, died at the age of 84 on Monday. The online edition of the weekly Respekt takes a critical look at her activities: "Particularly in recent years Anděla Dvořáková was a highly controversial figure. She was often to be found taking sides with the Czech communists. She invested a lot of time in fanning nationalism and nonsensical fears about the Sudeten Germans. She praised President Vacláv Klaus's calls for the Czechs to be exempted from the Lisbon treaty to prevent a potential watering down of the Beneš decrees [and property claims brought by those expelled from Czechoslovakia after the Second World War]. ... Anděla Dvořáková was vocally anti-German and saw the European Union as a German project to be viewed with great suspicion by the Czechs. In doing so she completely overlooked the fact that Germany is one of the Czech Republic's firmest allies in Europe today."
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More from the press review on the subject » Domestic Policy, » History, » Remembrance culture, » Germany, » Czech Republic
Václav Klaus' strange image of Germany
Czech President Václav Klaus has expressed his bitterness in an essay about the Germans who have 'peacefully established a clear hegemony in Europe after waging two unsuccessful world wars". The liberal weekly Respekt sees this as an impertinence: "How would the president react if someone made similarly disparaging remarks about the Czechs? He's probably tell the Germans not to visit the Czech Republic unless they want to risk their hair being shaved off and swastika painted on their backs, their property being stolen and perhaps even being shot [as was done during the expulsions when the war ended]. Such arguments are unacceptable in a civilised debate. ... Naturally the Germans have a lot of influence. But this is the result of their industriousness and skills, not a peaceful version of Hitler's plans. It is Germany that contributes the most to the EU budget - and therefore to the Czechs too."
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