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Fabian Baumann (Postdoctoral Research Fellow) - June 2025

Researching Treason Trials in Czechia

Fabian Baumann, postdoctoral researcher in the RTG Ambivalent Enmity, spent the months of April to June 2025 in the Czech National Archive in Prague, researching treason trials and the construction of state enemies in interwar Czechoslovakia. Among the most prominent figures tried for treason in this period were Alois Muna and Antonín Zápotocký, two communist leaders from the Central Bohemian mining town of Kladno – a city that Fabian got to visit on one of the weekends between archival research. The photo was taken in the mining museum at the former Mayrau coalmine in Kladno, where many communist activists worked during the 1920s.

mining museum at the former Mayrau coalmine in Kladno