Second World War

Subcategories

• Hardware findings 1
• War at sea 5
• War in the air 8
• War crimes 24
• Ammunition and weapons 0
• Remembrance events 0
• Period photographs 0
• The end of the war in the Czech Republic 2
• War treasures 5
• Nazi treasures 5
• Fortification 1

30. 4. 1945

30.4. 1945 Hitler committed suicide

Berlin was surrounded by the Red Army, there was no escape. So Adolf Hitler decided to commit suicide in his bunker. He shot himself 75 years ago, his newlywed wife Eva Braun poisoned herself.

29. 4. 1945

29.4. 1945 Liberation of Dachau concentration camp

Over 200 000 people passed through the camp in Dachau, among them, for example, the writer Josef Čapek. The American army liberated the concentration camp on 29 April 1945. Inside, the soldiers found thirty thousand impoverished prisoners.

At the camp

A few finds from the end of the war and a video

27. 4. 1939

27.4. 1939 New Protectorate Government with Elias

As the only chairman in occupied Europe, General Alois Elias ended up in front of a firing squad. "His" protectorate government was appointed on April 27, 1939. People saw him as a symbol of patriotism.

23. 4. 1945

23.4. 1945 Liberation of Brno began

A large part of Brno celebrated its liberation just three days after the Red Army arrived in the city. It happened on 23 April 1945, when Marshal Malinovsky himself gave the order for the final attack from Major General Afonin's observation post on the hill above Křepice.

19. 4. 1945

19.4. 1945 The Nazis burned the settlement of Ploština

Burnt houses and dozens of victims. That was the end of the rampage of the anti-guerrilla forces in the settlement of Ploština, which took place on April 19, 1945. Only one person managed to escape from the burning house into the forest.

16. 4. 1943

16.4. 1943 Poorly navigated raid on Skoda factory

Especially towards the end of the Second World War, the area of the Škodovka factory in Pilsen was the target of bomb attacks. However, on 16 April 1943, a mistake was made and bombs hit the nearby Dobřany, where a psychiatric hospital was located.