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Madeleine Korbel: A Young Girl Who Exposed To Politics

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Ever since Madeleine Albright was a young girl, she has been exposed to politics. Madeleine Korbel was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on May 15, 1937. Her father was Josef Korbel, who was a member of the Czech diplomatic corps. Due to World War II, “When German agents took power in Czechoslovakia in 1938, her father, an outspoken opponent of the Nazis, was targeted for execution” (Salem Press 16). To avoid death they moved to England, where she learned fluent English. After the war they returned to Prague, but then moved to New York, where Josef was in the United Nations. They moved to Colorado due to her father being targeted again. Madeleine began to take after her father in politics, “She won a scholarship to Wellesley College in Massachusetts,

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