14 June 2003 CESKE VELENICE, Czech Republic–Walter Wetzmuller, an 83-year-old Austrian, almost paid for his visit to the Czech Republic with his life. At the time, though, he was less than a kilometer from his home in Gmund, having crossed the border just to sit for a while in a restaurant in Ceske Velenice. There he had a stroke that […]

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