Czechoslovakia 1918-1993

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Some documents have free access.
(1790-1945; German and English facsimiles)
Podcast stories of war veterans and political prisoners.
(20th century; Czech interface and audio)
Historical sources regarding 20th century Czechoslovakia.
Includes oral accounts, texts, and facsimiles.
(20th century; Czech interface, facsimiles, transcriptions, and audio)
Oral first-hand accounts of major events in 20th century Czechoslovakia.
Browse the accounts here.
Also available as video here.
(1901-2014; Czech audio, video, and interface)
Records of trains, buses, airlines in Czechoslovakia.
(1908-1952; Czech facsimiles)
English version here
(18 October 1918; Czech facsimiles)
(13 November 1918; Czech transcription)
Treaty between Allies and Austria at the end of WWI. This established Czechoslovakia as an internationally recognized state.
(September 10, 1919; English)
Alternate source
Several documents on the history of Czechoslovakia.
(1919-1930; English)
Treaty between Allies and Hungary at the end of WWI. Established the border between Hungary and the newly formed state of Czechoslovakia.
(June 4, 1920; English)
(29 February 1920; Czech transcription)
Including treaties affecting the Hungarian-Yugoslav/Croatian border from the Treaty of Trianon to the Moscow Agreement.
Published by the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, US Department of State.
(1920-1945; facsimiles)
(1922-1945; Czech transcriptions)
Site contains documents from Holocaust in Czechoslovakia and other resources.
(1932 – 1945; Slovak and Czech facsimiles)
Samizdat journals.
Writings from exile, including diaries.
Other journals and writings.
(1932-1989; Czech facsimiles)
Records of individual officials and their comings and goings.
Click on link under "OEČ" to access record.
(1933-1989; Czech facsimiles)
Records of individual officials and their comings and goings.
Click on link under "OEČ" to access record.
(1933-1989; Czech facsimiles)
Antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany. These laws were used on the territory of Bohemia and Moravia as part of Reich.
(1935; English translation)
Includes documents authored by Havel and relating to him.
(1936-Present; images, Czech facsimiles and transcriptions)
Database of interviews with Jewish people from the Czech Republic.
Includes facsimiles of official documents.
Explore the database by family name, city. Also includes a photo database.
Advanced search here.
(photos, English translations, Czech and German facsimiles)
Records of Czechoslovakia under Nazi control, includes documentation of persecution of Jews in Bohemia and Moravia.
(1938-1945; photos, Czech facsimiles)
Audio clips available at bottom of page.
(12 March 1938-30 September 1938; Czech audio)
German troops enter Austria
Things begin to heat up between Germany and Czechoslovakia
Benes asks the Czech people to be "firm and have faith in our state
Czechoslovakia declares martial law
Chamberlain sensing the new tension offers to travel to Germany to talk to Hitler
Ultimatum to Benes: rescind martial law
War of words between Nazi Germany's radio and the Czech Republic shortwave station
Prague refutes Hungary's rumors about events in the Sudetenland
Hodza: If Chamberlain & Hitler have agreed upon a plebiscite, it is unacceptable to his country
War seems closer than ever before
The world wondering if they would wake up to world war
Chamberlain deplores the way he was treated and the change in Hitler's earlier agreements
Germany, England, France and Italy meet in Munich to decide the fate of Czechoslovakia
An agreement is signed
Chamberlain announces the "piece of paper" that both he and Hitler signed agreeing that Hitler's desires over Europe would stop with the Sudetenland
(1938; audio)
(21 September 1938; Czech transcription)
An agreement permitting the Nazi German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. The agreement was signed by Nazi Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Italy.
(30 September 1938; facsimile, English translation)
Database includes records and oral accounts of Nazi and Coomunist regimes in Europe during the 20th century.
Browse historical events in the database chronologically.
Browse historical events in the database alphabetically.
(1939-2009; English interface, Russian audio)
Includes documents, such as laws and regulations, as well as other data resources relating to anti-Soviet struggles and persecution of Jewish people.
(1939-1945; Slovak transcriptions)
(16 March 1939; Czech transcription)
(1939; image, Czech transcription)
Non-aggression pact between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany and a secret protocol dividing Northern and Eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence.
(23 August 1939; Czech, English translation, German and Russian facsimile)
Includes documents, such as laws and regulations, as well as other data resources relating to anti-Soviet struggles and persecution of Jewish people.
Some records relate to the StB (secret police) in Czechoslovakia.
(1939-1945; Slovak transcriptions)
Part of People's Archives of National Archives of Czech Republic.
(1939-1945; Czech interface, German facsimiles)
Part of People's Archives of National Archives of Czech Republic.
(1940-1945; Czech interface, German facsimiles)
Databases of inmate information from multiple prisons in the Terezin region.
Information including birth date, birth place, nationality, profession, prison sentence length, and reason for releasing the prisoner.
(1940-1948; Czech interface)
(2 October 1941; Czech transcription)
On thoughts of suicide
From Yad Vashem
(English translation)
Ability to browse by year and search by subject or keyword.
(1945-2015; Czech facsimiles)
  • Foreign relations between Czech Republic and the US
Documents from US State Department and University of Wisconsin-Madison.
1945
Transfer of German populations from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, and Austria, 1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
Impact of Egypt-Czechoslovak arms deal, 1955
1964-1968
1969-1972
(1945-1972; English transcriptions)
Post-WWII decrees laying framework to ban ethnic Germans and Hungarians from Czechoslovakia.
Also abolished German universities and technical colleges.
(19 May 1945 - 8 May 1946; photos, English translation)
(1945; Czech transcription)
Includes photographs from key events with birth and death dates of victims.
(5 to 8 May 1945; photos, Czech transcriptions)
Database searches multiple archives.
(30 June 1945 - 1 February 1990; Czech facsimiles)
(1947; images, Czech transcription)
(9 May 1948; Czech transcription)
Plans for cooperation, meeting minutes, and contracts.
(14 May 1948 - 22 February 1989; Czech, Hungarian, and Russian facsimiles and transcriptions)
Includes laws relating to border security.
Also includes biographies and birth/death dates and places for those shot.
(6 October 1948 - 1989; Czech interface, facsimiles, and transcriptions]
Includes documentation projects with biographies and names of regime victims.
Site also includes documents about Czechoslovakia's cooperation with other Eastern Bloc states.
(1948-1989; Czech transcriptions, facsimiles)
Documents from a non-profit organization dedicated preserving records on Czechoslovak resistance to communism.
(1948-1989; Czech)
Includes KGB and other regime-related documents.
(1949-1989; Czech facsimiles)
She was a Czech politician who focused on women's role in society and on democracy. She survived a concentration camp at Terezin after being involved in the underground resistance, but after the war she became a victim of judicial murder by the communist party. Included are letters written on the day of her execution.
From Women in World History
(1950; English translation)
Prisoners forced to mine uranium ore included "well-known politicians, scientists, clergy, artists, athletes and other personalities."
Includes name, birth and death dates, cause and means of death, initial sentence, and burial information.
Found at the Vojna memorial website.
(1951-1961; Czech)
"70,292 digitized Information Item reports created by Radio Free Europe’s (RFE) News and Information Department in multiple languages from 1951-1957, covering political, economic, social and cultural issues behind the Iron Curtain. The Items concerned topics ranging from official Communist Party and state apparatus organization to micro-level practices of everyday life."
Items were "processed by national evaluation units for Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and Romania."
From the OSA Archive Digital Repository.
(1951-1957; English, German, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, French, Romanian, Slovak, Bulgarian, and Georgian facsimiles)
Reports on developments in the communist world.
"18,224 special studies and thematic research papers produced by Radio Free Europe (RFE) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) research units from 1952 till 1992."
(1952-1992; English transcriptions)
Treaty of friendship and cooperation between Soviet Union and other communist satellite states in Eastern Europe.
(1 May 1955; English)
Agreements, reports and memos from negotiations, and protocols between Czechoslovakia and GDR.
(6 July 1955 - 13 March 1989; Czech, German, and Russian facsimiles and transcriptions)
Registry books of citizens done by the secret police, the StB.
(1 January 1958 - 15 February 1990; Czech facsimiles)
Agreements, reports of meetings, reports of negotiations, and plans for cooperation.
Also includes reports of joint measures carried about by Czechoslovakia and USSR.
(1958-1988; Czech and Russian facsimiles)
Newspaper clippings regarding events in Prague.
(1958-present; Czech facsimiles)
Includes meeting minutes, plans for cooperation, negotiation protocols.
(14 April 1958 - 26 October 1989; Czech, Polish, and Russian facsimiles and transcriptions)
(11 July 1960; Czech transcription)
(1968; Czech transcription)
(1968-1969; photos, Czech facsimiles)
"In reponse to the efforts, early in 1968, of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party, under the leadership of Alexander Dubcek, to introduce a number of reforms, including the abolition of censorship, the Soviet Union adopted a policy of combating 'anti-socialist forces."'
In cooperation with Fordham
(1968; English transcription)
From the project, A Day That Shook the World, which "recalls the days of the 20th century that proved to be era-defining and pivotal in the course of modern history."
Coproduction of British Pathe and BBC
(1968; English; videos)
  • Radio [Free Prague (Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia 1968)]
An excerpt from Radio Prague's report describing the condition of the city of Prague following the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the combined arms of the Warsaw Pact military.
To listen to the complete broadcast visit HERE
(1968; video; English)
Reports were an effort led by Ukraine-based KGB.
(1968-1989; Russian facsimiles)
Democratic reforms implemented by Alexander Dubček as part of the Prague Spring.
(Czech)
Includes summaries of action taken Prague Spring and Warsaw Pact Invasion. Intended for the Interior Minister, First Deputy Minister, Deputy Director for Management of State Security, secret police, and Soviet advisors.
(2 January 1968 - 29 December 1968; Czech facsimiles)
Documents regarding the Soviet response to the 1968 Prague Spring.
Part of the Wilson Center's Digital Archive of the Cold War.
(28 February to 26 November 1968; transcriptions and facsimiles)
Reports from the occupation, statements by political leaders.
(21-2 August 1968; Czech and Russian MP3 files)
Declassified CIA documents from Cold War Era Hard Target Analysis.
(28 October 1968; PDF facsimiles)
Set of reforms implemented by Alexander Dubček as part of the Prague Spring.
(Czech; 1968)
Collection of original documents
In cooperation with Central Intelligence Agency
(1968; English facsimiles)
(1968; transcription in Czech)
Authentic records from August 1968 including reports on the invasion from Moscow, a demonstration at the embassy and Lyndon B Johnson urging the Soviet Union to withdraw its troops from occupied Czechoslovakia.
(1968; English audio)
"Synopsis: International situation following Warsaw Pact armed intervention in Czechoslovakia - Bearing on Germany - Berlin - Mediterranean - Warning to the USSR."
(1968; English transcription)
Letters of Jan Palach and related government documents.
(1969-1974; Czech transcriptions)
(6 January 1969-21 February 1989; Czech facsimiles with English translations)
Military intervention on demonstrations.
(August 1969; videos)
Operations between Czechoslovakia and its embassy in Turkey controlled by "Buccaneer," a code name for Alexander Dubcek.
(29 December 1969 - 24 June 1970; Czech facsimiles)
Intra-party communication documents related to consolidation of Communist Party in Czechoslovakia, mainly personnel policy.
(1970-1972; Czech facsimiles)
"On 11 December 1973, in Prague, the Federal Republic of Germany and Czechoslovakia sign a treaty in which the two States recognise each other diplomatically and declare the 1938 Munich Agreements to be null and void by acknowledging the inviolability of their common borders and abandoning all territorial claims."
(11 December 1973; English transcription)
Agreement and rules.
(20 August 1974; Romanian and Czech facsimiles)
Plans and protocols for coordination between the KGB and the VKR (Czechoslovak Ministry of Interior.
(1976-1989; Czech facsimiles)
Text outlining political dissident movement in Czechoslovakia.
Complete list of signatories found here, and each name links to a digitized facsimile of its original.
(1977 to January 1977; Czech transcription, facsimiles)
Original Signature Cards, Secret Police Files, U.S. Intelligence Reports Published for First Time
(1977; English; PDFs)
Includes collection of samizdat publications.
(1977-1990; Czech facsimiles)
Communication between grassroots organizations to the Central Committee of the Communist Party.
Documents discuss "information about the political situation in the regions and moods Communist Party members and other residents, the activities of the lower party organs and activities of basic party organizations, especially the member meetings on implementation of some important tasks."
(1979-1989; Czech facsimiles)
Documents from the last years of communist Czechoslovakia.
(1987-1989; Czech transcriptions)
(25 March 1988; Czech facsimiles)
Includes situation reports, personnel reports, minutes from meetings of Ministry of Interior.
Documents from international cooperation of Communist intelligence groups also included.
Interviews, video footage.
Photos
Integrates primary source documents into a chronological timeline of events.
(1988-1989; videos, photos, Czech, Russian, Hungarian, German, and Polish facsimiles and transcriptions)
Includes:
Propaganda posters
Photos from student demonstration
Documents (19 November - 30 December 1989)
Includes letters and declarations.
(1989; Czech facsimiles)
At that point the largest protest in 20 years, the demonstrations helped to spark the Velvet Revolution that brought down communism in Czechoslovakia and put dissident playwright Václav Havel in the Presidential Palace.
(1989; transcriptions)
East German Refugee Crisis in Embassies in Prague Turned Hardliners into Advocates for Change
(1989; English; PDFs)
Primary sources such as speeches, letters, fertility and abortion reports, and papers of the Civic Forum.
(1989; English interface)
  • 1989 Footage
CZECHOSLOVAKIA/W. GERMANY: REFUGEES
EAST GERMAN REFUGEES
VELVET REPUBLIC
CZECHOSLOVAKIA SOVIET PULL-OUT
In cooperation with AP Archive
(1989; Czech and English; video)
Documents from Secret Police, Party, and Dissidents
(1989; English; PDFs)
Speech by Vaclav Havel, President of Czechoslovakia.
(January 1, 1990; English translation)
(26 February 1990; Czech transcription)
(25 November 1992; Czech transcription)
Collection of historical maps of Europe.
(facsimiles; Hungarian)

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