The Only Victim I Saw Inside
During the Prague uprising Ota Rambousek managed to get to the building of Czech Radio from Balbínová Street. In the chaos of revolution he got two suitcases full of grenades that were given to him, more or less willingly, by soldiers of Wehrmacht in a nearby Karlovo Square. The gun battles were the wildest at the Radio, but some of the enthusiastic patriots changed their minds. So Ota did obtain a gun. Collectively they got into the building, and one Czech policeman took them on the roof. “We went downstairs floor by floor. Meanwhile, the Germans already took their wounded and dead away. When we got to the ground floor around 5 o´clock p.m., we found only one person dead, and it was our state police officer. He was the only witness inside the building I saw.” After that the Germans made several attempts to silence the radio. The fight for the radio lasted four days.
Hodnocení
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Trasy
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Fight for the Radio, 1945
Despite the danger, the rising in the radio starts spontaneously and as usually with a joke. The broadcaster Zdeněk Mančal welcomes the listeners comically with these words: “Right now it is sechs o´clock.” And then the broadcasters Mančal, Kozák and Malík broadcast only Czech announcements and music. The studio is overloaded with a heap of congratulating calls. The Nazi director of the radio Thürmer protests, and when he does not do well even at the Czech inspector of broadcasting Kukrál, he asks for military back-up. Before the main entry on Schwernova (Vinohradská) Street, the Germans increase the barricades with the barbed wire and sand sacks. The reinforcement of 65 SS soldiers come on the horses at 11:45 and get to the building through the entry from Balbínová Street. The SS are looking for the broadcasting studio, but the Czech employees removed the German signs and orientation plates so the corridors and stairs become a big maze for them. Source: http://www.rozhlas.cz/english/portal
