Eastern Europe

Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha died on 11 April 1985.

Mary Heimann restores Czechoslovakia to its pivotal role in the Munich Crisis.

The 2009 Nobel Prize winner for literature is well placed to describe the trials of Eastern European minorities through the maelstrom of the 20th century, writes Markus Bauer.

Dan Stone looks at how historians’ understanding of the Holocaust has changed since the end of the Cold War with the opening of archives that reveal the full horror of the ‘Wild East’.

The ministry of education in the Czech Republic recently issued guidelines on how to teach children about the country’s totalitarian past. Not everyone is pleased, reports Lubomír Sedlák.

A mutual defence treaty between Communist states was signed on 14 May 1955.

John Erickson assesses the massive Soviet assault into Germany in the final year of the war and the price of liberation.

Yehuda Koren tells one family’s remarkable story of surviving Auschwitz.

Martin D. Brown tells the little-known story of how British and American soldiers disappeared in Slovakia’s Tatra Mountains during the remarkable episode of Slovakia’s National Uprising against its Nazi-supporting government during the Second World War.

Anthony Head describes the ways in which an atrocity has been commemorated, sixty years on.