这本书是我在2012年，在布拉格旅行时买的。一直没有读，直到今年在一次去了布拉格。在出发之前花费22天时间，边读边做英文笔记。这本书目前我没有发现中文译本，我自己的笔记也是英文的，我懒的翻译成中文，而且笔记全部发出来，因为字数限制，估计要发三个帖子才行。因此这里只发其中的一部分吧。

所谓的black应该指的就是布拉格那段黑暗的历史，这本书里主要讨论的是从德国开始入侵捷克斯洛伐克开始，一直到1947年之间。布拉格成为德国所谓的"受保护国"，还有捷克斯洛伐克人民的反映，以及他们对自己身份的认同等。一站以后，哈布斯堡王朝覆灭，捷克斯洛伐克成立。当时的捷克斯洛伐克主要是由三个区域组成， Bohemia, Moravia和Slovakia。这本书里面讨论的主要是现金捷克的三个地区，

Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia。Silesia是个特别小的区域，所以本书以波西米亚为主，Moravia为辅。我这次的旅行第一占就到了Moravia的首府，Brno- 米兰昆德拉的故乡。

【TS&花语的欧洲之约】米兰昆德拉的故乡--布尔诺    

图片来自于网络。在阅读的过程中，因为需要对地图有个大致的了解，这个算是个比较好的图片。

在1938年的慕尼黑协议上，四个国家首脑把当时的捷克斯洛伐克牺牲了。纳粹德国在1939年3月入侵了布拉格。

Munich agreement: 1938年9月29日- 9月30日，英国，德国，法国和意大利四国首脑在慕尼黑召开的会议。英法为避免战争爆发，签署慕尼黑协定，牺牲了捷克斯洛伐克的苏台德地区。苏台德地区当时有大概300多万的德意志族。

On March 16, 1939， Prague residents awoke to radio announcements that the German army was marching toward the capital city. Every half hour thereafter Czech broadcasters warned the population to remain calm. Large snowflakes dropped from the sky steel-helmeted soldiers marched through the city and took up positions in front of Prague’s baroquepalaces. 

Jews, many of them refugees who had already fled Nazi rule elsewhere, banged on the doors of foreign consulates, begging for visas. Some Jews committed suicide. “Prague streets, usually so animated, now completely empty and deserted.”

纳粹德国希望能make Czechs German。 

In 1937 Hitler told foreign minister and top military officials that he intended to absorb both Austria and the Bohemian lands into Germany. The takeover of the Bohemian lands, he predicted, would result in additional foodstuffs for 5-6 millions Germans. He declared that 2 million Czechs would be expelled and vaguely alluded to "the elimination of the Czechs". Yet after the occupation of Prague, Ian Keyshawn writes, even Hitler showed "remarkably little interest in the Czechs" after the peaceful occupation of the Bohemian lands. Instead he looked directly eastward from Berlin.  In summer 1939, Hitler turned his attentions to Poland.

捷克斯洛伐克流亡政府和苏维埃合作，要赶跑纳粹德国。

Beginning in 1943 no one could leave the Protectorate except for war-related reasons. Gestapo agents walked through every train, asking for personal papers. Gestapo agents made a point of arresting people in public in order to frighten bystanders. Day and night, Prague inhabitants saw black cars carrying the doomed from Gestapo offices to the infamous Pankrac Prison, where they were subjected to unimaginable torture and the threat of being guillotined.

In fact, London's call for resistance and sabotage only made a bad situation worse. Calls for sabotage from London do more harm than good. In 1943 Jan Masaryk broadcast an announcement that Allies planes would begin bombing Protectorate factories. 这样肯定会有很多人死去。 开始总统为了保护捷克斯洛伐克 而使他们成为被保护国就是为了保护人民以及财产。 可是联军来轰炸， 肯定死伤无数。 Thus many voices at home complained.

In the first half of 1943 alone one thousand teachers were imprisoned or killed. By the end of the war about 5000 had been sent to concentration camps, where a fifth died. About 40% of Czech teachers in the Protectorate, and 69% from Prague, had been removed from the classroom and mobilized for "total war" before liberation.

Just before Christmas of 1943 Benea sat down in front of a microphone in a Moscow broadcasting station. His radio address that day has much in comb with his earlier pronouncements. But there was different, for the Czechoslovak president-in-exile described for his audience "one of the most beautiful instances of my political work and my political life"- the signing of the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation between Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union. The Treaty pledged both states to fight German together and foster economic relations after the war, while the Soviet Union promised to respected the sovereignty and independence of Czechoslovakia.  之前总统签署了让德国占领捷克斯洛伐克。 现在流亡政府领导人又和苏维埃联合， 还说保证捷克斯洛伐克的独立。苏维埃军队过来肯定不是单纯的帮忙，后来的事实就能证明。人家凭什么帮你？肯定这里有利益关系嘛。 这帮捷克斯洛伐克流亡政府的人也是为了自己的利益不惜任何代价呀。

George Orwell wrote in 1946: "In our age, there is no such thing as keeping out of politics. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. It is! In the Bohemian lands from 1939 to 1947 everything was political, and nationalism tinged every aspect of politics.