Grim Reality: Czech TV Makes Game of Nazi Era

PRAGUE — We have seen toddlers in tiaras, been left “Naked and Afraid” and met more real housewives than a postman.

But if you thought reality television had reached the boundaries of imagination and good taste, a show that went on the air in the Czech Republic this month has opened up a whole new frontier. In “Holiday in the Protectorate,” an eight-part series from Czech public television, three generations of a real-life family are sent “back in time” to a remote mountain farm in 1939, when German invaders transformed the country into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. More...

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