Abstract
The Holocaust (or Shoah) including what led to the genocide of the Jews in the 1940s has been widely scrutinzed by scholars of modern European history in recent decades. The fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, and the development of modern Jewish studies in post-socialist countries, led many historians (especially in Poland) to anwer difficult questions about collaboration of the local population during the Second World War and co-responsibility for Nazi genocide against the Jewish and Roma populations.
The Czech Republic, however, is waiting in vain for such a debate, as the persecution of the Jewish population during the Second World War continues to be largely perceived as a purely German affair.