Politické ozvěny Buchenwaldu
Political echoes of Buchenwald

Summary/Abstract: Moulis, Miloslav: Z mých vzpomínek. Prepared for publication by Lenka Kločková, Maria Chaloupková and Roman Štér. Prague: Národní archiv, 2016, 279 pp., ISBN 978-80-7469-052-5. The book "From my Memories" of the Czech historian, journalist, and publicist Miloslav Moulis (1921–2010) are a sequel of his previous book of memoirs, "Vlaky do neznáma" (Trains Heading for the Unknown) (Třebíč, Akcent 2011), which depicts the era of the first Czechoslovak Republic and the Nazi occupation during which the author, a member of the resistance movement, was imprisoned. The loose sequel starts with his return from the Buchenwald concentration camp and describes his life in post-war Czechoslovakia. As a Communist activist, he first held various administrative jobs and started studying history in the 1960s. In the reviewer’s opinion, Moulis’s memoirs may be beneficial for three aspects of historical studies: the evolution of political attitudes of low- and middle-level Communist officials in the 1950s and 1960s, the creation of post-war networks of personal relations within the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, in which alliances established during the Nazi internment were playing an important role, and the mutual union of reformist politicians and historiographers in the 1960s.

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