This all stopped just before World War II, when the Germans took over the Sudetenland in northern Czechoslovakia, where the glass factories were.

Her mother, who was of Austrian descent, had grown up in northern Czechoslovakia; her father was Swiss.

From London a Polish officer and an English scientist who had taken a crash course in Polish dropped by parachute into northern Czechoslovakia.

Josef Skvorecky was born on September 27 1924 at Nachod in northern Czechoslovakia, the son of a bank clerk.

On 10 April he was appointed the final Geschwaderkommodore of Jagdgeschwader 6 (JG 6-6th Fighter Wing) based in northern Czechoslovakia.

A8 An environmental cleanup company from the U.S. is scrubbing up the ecological mess left by Soviet military units after they withdrew from a base in northern Czechoslovakia.

Many of the ethnic Germans who had run glass factories in northern Czechoslovakia were expelled from the country.

The scene is repeated throughout the Central European coal belt, from East Germany through northern Czechoslovakia and across southern Poland.

In northern Czechoslovakia air pollution shortens life expectancy by three to four years.

The Oder and the Neisse begin as pristine streams in the mountains of northern Czechoslovakia.