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Episode 2: No Regrets: Why a Nazi Informant Got Cut


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In this episode Chad Bryant, Associate Professor of History at UNC - Chapel Hill, tells the story of Jiři Smichovský. Smichovský was an interwar Czechoslovak occultist turned Nazi informant. And then Communist informant. Oh, and before that, he was almost certainly a spy. Chad tells us why this individual did not make it into his recent book, "Prague: Belonging and the Modern City." Thanks to Professor Bryant for appearing on this episode.

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