Nazism
The chair of the neo-Nazi DSSS, Tomáš Vandas (right), posting with Xaver Veselý, member of the board of public broadcaster Czech Television, at a meeting of people calling themselves "patriots". (August 2020) (PHOTO: Facebook profile of Tomáš Vandas)
Czech Radio moderator poses for photo with right-wing extremist, but public broadcaster says the rules were not broken
26.8.2020 6:50 full story
More Czech towns and villages announce they are flying the Romani flag to honor European Roma Holocaust Memorial Day
31.7.2020 16:10 full story
Romani activists called on Czech mayors to fly the Romani flag for 2 August, some of their refusals were textbook racism
31.7.2020 15:38 full story
William Bila: Berlin's Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism must not be relocated, German railroad cannot be allowed to disrupt it
30.7.2020 9:22 full story
Czech Police intervene against yet another publisher of antisemitic books
15.6.2020 12:34 full story
Daniela Abraham: The antigypsyist violence of my childhood is still happening in Central Europe
7.6.2020 19:06 When I was 10 years old, living in my home country of Slovakia, I was shot in the left side of my chest by a racist neighbour who on the previous day had shouted at me: "I'm gonna shoot you, you dirty Gypsy!" The racist neighbour shot me with a bb gun while I was walking home from school with my little brother. full story
Czech Interior Ministry and Prague City Hall stop leasing properties to publisher who released Nazi calendar, MPs plan to ban the sale of Nazi symbols
30.5.2020 11:38 full story
VIDEO: Holocaust survivor from Germany's Sinti community, Rita Prigmore, warns it could happen again
26.8.2019 9:42 full story
Czech producer of items with portraits of totalitarians adds war criminals, contemporary figures to product line
13.8.2019 7:54 full story
Slovak Police arrest Czech citizen and two Slovak citizens on suspicion of extremism
27.6.2019 10:33 full story
Czech commemoration at site of Nazi massacre tomorrow will not feature xenophobic speaker
14.6.2019 5:42 full story
Nazi concentration camp survivors say authors of hateful online comments should be ashamed of themselves
10.5.2019 7:52 full story
Czech MP compares French President Macron to Hitler at commemoration of the Nazi occupation, Czech Defense Ministry distances itself
15.3.2019 17:57 full story
Czech Supreme Court overturns acquittal on publication of Hitler's speeches, wants more evidence
7.7.2018 9:20 The Czech Supreme Court has overturned the acquittal in the case of the publication of a book of speeches by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler in Czech translation. The case has been returned to the state prosecutor for further investigation and the accumulation of more evidence. full story
Czech commemoration of Holocaust at Terezín Memorial will again not feature the Romani flag
18.5.2018 17:58 The traditional commemorative ceremony held by the Terezín Memorial will be held on Sunday at the National Cemetery in front of the Small Fortress, and several Romani activists will again have a bitter taste in their mouths about it. On the basis of an initiative by the Konexe association two years ago, 14 pro-Roma and Roma nonprofit organizations including ARA ART, ROMEA and Slovo 21 pointed out that the Romani flag is not flown at the memorial during the annual commemoration ceremony alongside the flags of the other nations whose members fell victim to Nazi persecution. full story
Germany: Wife of WWII-era Nazi has failed to show up for prison after conviction for inciting hatred
9.5.2018 7:50 An infamous German Holocaust denier, 89-year-old Ursula Haverbeck, was sentenced last year to two years in prison for inciting hatred. She has yet to set foot in jail. full story
Germany compensating Czech and Slovak Roma 72 years after Nazi atrocities
19.6.2017 16:09 "From an inconspicuous article in the newspaper I learned that Germany had begun to compensate Jewish [Holocaust survivors] in the post-communist states. I could not find any mention of Romani people anywhere. That country left such a horrible mark on us Roma and continues to behave as if nothing ever happened to us. That angered me terribly," recalls the chair of the Committee for the Redress of the Roma Holocaust in the Czech Republic (VPORH), Čeněk Růžička, when asked how last year's breakthrough decision came about to compensate Czech Roma for the hardships caused them by their imprisonment in German concentration camps. full story
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