Top Secret Scandals

When an embarrassment happens, the actors usually don't share it much. When a scandal happens, the actors try to cover it up as much as possible. In many cases, it will succeed. But covering all the tracks is much harder. And so our history is full of stories we shouldn't have known.
Why does the whole world know Elizabeth Bathory, while no one knows her Czech predecessor? How is it possible that the murdered bandit, the hero of the novels, was released from prison 15 years after his death? Why are archaeologists still afraid to open the tomb of an important nobleman? What terrible history of the real Count Dracula is hidden in the Czech-Krumlov underground? What was the failure of the Czech fascists' attempt to overtake Hitler and take power here before Germany did? Why did sandwiches become the focus of the Czech anti-Nazi resistance? A well-known Czech reporter seeks answers to these and other stories of our history.