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Eleanor M. Wheeler, a correspondent for the Religious News Service,
wrote letters from Prague to her friends in the USA from 1947 to
1957. Her husband, George Shaw Wheeler, was a colonel in the US
Army and the chief of the de-Nazification section of the Manpower
Division of the Office of the Military Government (OMGUS). While in
Germany in 1946, Wheeler's contract was not renewed, mainly due to
suspicions that he was disloyal to the US government and had
connections to the communist movement. Afterwards the entire family
moved to Prague, where in 1951 they applied for political asylum.
The correspondence depicts ten years of life in Czechoslovakia-from
the rise of communism through high Stalinism to the
de-Stalinization of the country-from the perspective of
pro-Communist-minded Americans. Thematically, the correspondence
covers a wide range of political, cultural, and social topics,
including the Cold War, the Korean War, the role of Christians in
mediating dialogue between East and West, McCarthyism, and topics
focused on the internal politics of Czechoslovakia.
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