As promissed in the article on the Czech military history and museums covering the modern periods starting with the 1866 prusso-austrian war and the battle of Königgrätz (today it’s the 152nd anniversary of the battle which allowed Prussia to effectively start it’s project of German unification, a project which had consequences for …
On 28th October, a commemoration ceremony at the Honorary Court of the National Monument at Vítkov in Prague started the celebrations of the 101st anniversary of the establishment of independent Czechoslovakia. President Zeman honored 42 personalities and awarded them with state decorations. Almost a quarter of them are tied to the …
The long awaited and needed reconstruction of the Army Museum in Žižkov, Prague, has started on Monday 10th September by a foundation stone laying ceremony attained by the Minister of Defence Lubomír Metnar, the Chief of General Staff Lieutenant General Aleš Opata, and the Director of the Military History Institute Colonel Aleš Knížek. …