Identification of Dead Parachutes

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On August 6, 1942 Alois Kubiš was arrested and taken to the Gestapo headquarters, the Petschek Palace in Prague. As a ten-year old distant relative of Jan Kubiš, Alois Kubiš was supposed to identify Reinhard Heydrich's assassins. He had to look at their severed heads that were conserved in glass jars: “They took us to the room with a table and on that table there were oval glass jars with parachutists´ heads. They asked if we recognise them. They were walking around and we were just saying: ‛We do not know, we do not know them.’ And that was it.”

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Alois Kubiš

Alois Kubiš was born in 1932 in the village of Černá Hora. He is a distant relative of Jan Kubiš, who carried out the assassination on the German Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich. In August 1942, when he was only ten years old, he was arrested together with his parents and sister. His parents were interned in the Little Fortress in Terezín and his sister was held in Prague. While in Prague, he was forced to identify Heydrich's assassins when he was shown their severed heads in glass containers. After this, he was briefly interned in Terezín and then for half a year in Masaryk's Institute in Prague, where Germans conducted tests with vaccines on him and other children. After the war he served in the army for several years. At present he lives in Šumperk.

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Petschek Palace

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The Petschek Palace is originally a bank house of a Czech-German Jewish man of finance Julius Petschek which was built in 1920. Before the war, the family sold their properties and left the country. After the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939, the Nazi secret state police Gestapo took over the building and all the terror against the Czechs was run from there. Thousands of Czech patriots were questioned and tortured there. In the room called “biograph” they had to wait still up for their turn. Most of them did not survive brutal interrogations. When Reinhard Heydrich became a Reichsprotector, the Nazi created a martial court there and started to send people to the concentration camps and for executions. At the end of the war, the Petschek Palace was a fort of the Nazis, but the building was under a big pressure of the rebels and the Nazis surrendered before the Red Army came.