In Prague, A Dark Memorial To Wartime Heroism

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Channel: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty · 2012 · News & Politics

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Seventy years ago, Czech resistance fighters assassinated the Nazi leader of occupied
Czechoslovakia, Reinhard Heydrich, known as the "Butcher of Prague." A Czech organization is commemorating the event with a re-creation of a concentration camp, a reminder not only of the resistance effort, but also of the brutal crackdown on civilians that followed. Video by Nikolay Pavlov, RFE/RL

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