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...
There is a lot of monuments and museums dedicated to the military history in the Czech Republic. Many of the famous battlefields of different eras are preserved and offer historic trails to discover the monuments or important and interesting locations. The monuments and museums are administered by a number of institutions.
Every year, by the second half of August an important modern military history and re-enactment event takes place in the Czech Republic, near Králíky, a small town in the Ústí nad Orlicí District, Pardubice Region. The event got its name „Cihelna“ („Brickworks“) from a combat installation of the Czechoslovak fortification line from...
76 years ago the Operation Anthropoid successfully eliminated SS general Reinhard Heydrich, one of the highest-ranking architects of Holocaust. Seven paratroopers fought later their last battle encircled in the crypt of the Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius Church in the Prague centre; their bodies were lined up by their enemies for...