Executions were a scary form of shadow theater
Irena Šimonová came to the prison hospital in Pankrac in 1949. The preceding custody and in particular the brutal interrogations broke her health and thus she had to be placed in the hospital even before the court ruling. According to Irena, the hospital was also immersed in an atmosphere of fear of the political terror. Regular executions were taking place in the corners of the courtyard of the E-shaped building of the prison hospital. "There was a gallows located in both arms of the E-shaped building of the prison hospital. Unlike in a prison, there were large windows in the hospital and thus they always had to cover the windows with wrapping paper before each execution. But the executions were lit up by a spotlight and thus we could see what was going on behind the covered windows. It was a sort of a horrifying shadow theater. But no one dared to report it," recalled Irena. Today, it is difficult to judge whether this psychologically depressing practice was part of the coercive strategy, or just a curious shortcoming.
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