A guide to wartime Prague is the result of Jiří Padevět's extensive archival research. The book provides details of hundreds of locations and events that occurred in the Czech capital during World War II, such as the assassination of Deputy Reich-Protector Reinhard Heydrich or the Prague up…
A guide to wartime Prague is the result of Jiří Padevět's extensive archival research. The book provides details of hundreds of locations and events that occurred in the Czech capital during World War II, such as the assassination of Deputy Reich-Protector Reinhard Heydrich or the Prague up…
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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 …
The Novákových Street was named after a family that lived in there, in house number 3. The Novák family had three children. During the Second World War they got involved in the resistance movement and formed a group that bore the name of their daughter – Jindra. This group assisted in the Anth…
The magnificent seven that did not give up Thursday June 18th 1942: since four a.m. military and police cars are driving into Resslova street leading to the orthodox church of St. Cyril and Methodius. Seventeen commissioned officers and seven hundred and forty non-commissioned officers and…
Reinhard Heydrich, the Deputy Reich-Protector is sitting in the front seat of his Mercedes on May 27 1942 at 10.35 a.m. and is heading for his office. His trained bodyguard Johanes Klein is driving the car. Parachutists Josef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš are waiting for him on the pavement at the bend of…
