Second World War

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• 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

13. 8. 1945

13.8. 1945 Return of RAF pilots

54 Spitfires of the Czechoslovak Fighter Wing landed at Ruzyně Airport in August 1945. They returned from their service in Great Britain. They were welcomed by thousands of people, not only from the capital.

9. 8. 1945

9.8. 1945 The atomic bomb fell on Nagasaki

In early August 1945, two atomic bombs fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was a watershed event in history. Humanity entered the atomic age.

8. 8. 1945

8.8. 1945 Soviet Union declared war on Japan

In Europe the war ended with the surrender of Germany on 8 May 1945, on the Asian continent with the surrender of Japan on 2 September 1945. The Soviet Union took control of all the territories that had belonged to Tsarist Russia before 1904, with relatively few losses.

7. 8. 1942

7.8. 1942 Battle of Guadalcanal

The Battle of Guadalcanal was one of the most important battles of World War II in the Pacific. It didn't finally end until February 1943. The result? The unconditional surrender of Imperial Japan.

2. 8. 1934

2.8. 1934 Hitler appointed German leader

Hitler used the death of President Hindenburg to combine the functions of President and Chancellor and to take personal command of the armed forces. Abolishing the title of Reich President, he began to refer to himself as "Führer and Reich Chancellor".

25. 7. 1942

25.7. 1942 The Battle of the Caucasus began

Hitler planned to take over the oil fields around Baku. However, he failed to do so and the so-called Battle of the Caucasus ended in a fiasco for the Third Reich. Hitler almost had a nervous breakdown.

23. 7. 1895

23 July 1895 General František Moravec was born

He was born in Čáslav as one of ten children of an official bailiff. After grammar school, he studied at the Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University, which he did not complete because he had to enlist in Čáslav in 1915. He graduated from officer's school and then went with the 12th Infantry Regiment to Kanizha in Hungary.

22. 7. 1942

22.7. 1942 Deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto began

It looked like the usual raid and recruitment of new people into the forced labour units, but this time the atmosphere seemed to be charged with a premonition of disaster. In July 1942, the deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto began.

20. 7. 1944

20.7. 1944 Assassination of Hitler

The main actor in the assassination was Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. Together with him, other opponents from the army also planned the coup. They were moved to action after the Normandy landings in June 1944.