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As soon as the Second World War started, Nazi Germany experienced a sharp decline in industrial output - a result of the many young German workers who left their jobs to fight. Hitler decided to solve this problem by forcing people in occupied countries to fill the gaps in its workforce. Hundreds of thousands of Central Europeans were deported from their home countries to Germany or German-occupied territories to work in their factories.

It's time now for the latest edition of Central Europe Today, in which takes a look at how gambling and betting have taken off in the Czech Republic since the fall of Communism...

In today's edition of Central Europe Today, Nick Carey takes a look at NATO and where Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic are two years after joining the Alliance.