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