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“Greetings from Prague”, correspondence card, around 1900

The view of the city on the Vltava is enclosed in two medallions with a portrait of Emperor Franz Joseph and the double eagle. This neutral–patriotic postcard ignores the deep trenches that had already opened up between the Czechs and the Germans in Bohemia.

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Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur- und Betriebsges.m.b.H.
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Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur-und Betriebsges.m.b.H./Fotograf: Alexander E. Koller

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    Hardening of the Fronts: The Czech Demand for the Bohemian Compromise

    The demand for autonomy for Bohemia was a core issue in the national movement, which by now had become a mass phenomenon. From the Czech perspective Bohemia was seen as a political nation with an emphatically Czech character – consciously suppressing the fact that this contradicted the ethnic concept of the nation: because “Bohemians” no longer existed; national agitation now applied only to Czechs and Germans.