HAMDEN — Four unusual visitors — two men and two women — came to the door of Robert Muthersbaugh’s Braeside Drive home in Hamden on a recent evening. Attired in military dress, the men were defense ...

At the beginning of May 1945 fighting was still going on in Prague. The Czech lands were one of the last places in Europe where people were dying even after the official end of hostilities between the ...

Fifty years ago, o n the night of August 20-21, 1968, some 165,000 soldiers and 4,600 tanks from four Warsaw Pact states—the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria—accompanied by military advisors ...

In 1945, two and a half million ethnic Germans were driven from their homes in Czechoslovakia. Thousands died. Now, as the Czech Republic heads for EU membership, Charles Wheeler reports on how the ...

German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer is due to visit Prague tomorrow for talks with Czech leaders. The visit comes at a time of renewed tension between the Czech Republic and its German-speaking ...

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder yesterday canceled a planned trip to the Czech Republic in a bid to avoid becoming drawn into the ongoing dispute over a set of controversial post-World War II ...

An unveiling over the week-end of a memorial tablet at the Cezska Lipa Jewish cemetery — commemorating the death of 17 Jews who perished in a death march in 1945 when concentration camp victims were ...