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U.S. vet from WWII is honored in Europe, showered with gratitude at age 99  The Washington Post

Czechoslovakia  Holocaust Encyclopedia

Crowds in Pilsen rejoice in celebrating 80 years since Czech city’s WWII liberation  Stars and Stripes

CZECHOSLOVAKIA: The Art of Survival  Time Magazine

Liberation Festival begins. They will be officially opened with an evening ceremony  Slavnosti svobody Plzeň

On this Day, in 1945: the Prague uprising ended six years of German occupation  Kafkadesk

How rock music freed the Czech Republic: Lecture demonstrates musical resistance to oppression  The Baylor Lariat

Blu-ray Review: Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet  Inside Pulse

The Hollywood Directors Who Filmed Concentration Camp Liberations  The Forward

Patton museum a worthy visit in Czech city that celebrates WWII liberation annually  Stars and Stripes

Thousands celebrate anniversary of liberation of Pilsen by Allied forces  Radio Prague International

Thousands turn out in Czech city to honor American and Belgian liberators from World War II  Stars and Stripes

Freedom Celebrations in Plzeň bigger than ever on 80th anniversary of liberation  Radio Prague International

Silent witness: Raw footage of the Allied liberation of western Bohemia premieres in Prague  Radio Prague International

Bloody conclusion of WWII in Czech lands  Radio Prague International

Remembering the liberation of Plzen, sixty years on  Radio Prague International

The Battle of the Airwaves: the extraordinary story of Czechoslovak Radio and the 1945 Prague Uprising  Radio Prague International

Jan Procházka: The writer behind Czech film classic The Ear  Radio Prague International

Operation Cowboy: When U.S. Cavalry and Germans Fought Together in WWII to Save 1,200 Horses from the Soviets  Military.com

WR: Mysteries of the Organism—Beyond the Liberation of Desire : Revisiting Makavejev's Subversive Classic  CrimethInc.

80 years ago: The Moravia–Ostrava offensive, the bloodiest battles on Czech soil  Radio Prague International

Czech town celebrates US WWII vets on its liberation anniversary  Stars and Stripes

Eight decades after the liberation of Theresienstadt, a survivor remembers  The Washington Post

Jan Palach  Eye For Film

The Motherland and the Fight with Fascism: War Cult and War Film under Brezhnev (1965–82)  Wiley Online Library

1945-1948: From liberation to Stalinism  Radio Prague International

Jiří (George) Voskovec – the Czech theatrical pioneer who carved out a Cold-War career in Hollywood  Radio Prague International

General Patton statue becomes a hot potato  Radio Prague International