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Edice textu Jaroslava Werstadta - Hlas odporu z přítmí druhé republiky a z prvních měsíců nacistické okupace
| Title in English | An Edition of an Essay by Jaroslav Werstadt - A Voice of Resistance from the Twilight of the Second Republic and the First Months of the Nazi Occupation |
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Literární archiv. Sborník Památníku národního písemnictví. Memento. Druhá světová válka. Dokumenty - umění |
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| Keywords | Jaroslav Werstadt; Edvard Beneš; Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk; Munich Agreement; Second Republic; Nazi occupation; history of historiography; ideology |
| Description | In the edited text, written in 1966, the Czech historian Jaroslav Werstadt describes his experience of publishing in the Second Republic, when he focused on critics who attacked the ideological foundations of the Czechoslovak Republic, which they accused of having brought about the Munich catastrophe, and in the early months of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, when he focused on Nazi ideology and propaganda and German visions of new ordering of the Central Europe. His campaign in the press represented a daring defence of the official ideology of the First Republic, the work of T. G. Masaryk and E. Beneš, and is also an expression of Werstadt’s conviction that the current situation was only a brief deviation in the democratization of Europe and indeed the whole world, which had been under way since the First World War. Considering that the edited text was written in the 1960s, it is fair to see it also as evidence of a striking continuity in Werstadt’s thinking and world-view, which were essentially unchanged since the First Republic, despite the many political and social ups and downs. An introductory essay links Werstadt’s connection with First Republic ideology together with similar positions held by men from the group of so-called ‘Castle historians’, including (apart from Werstadt), K. Krofta, J. Slavík, and J. Borovička. |
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