The Prague Uprising
Adolf Hitler inspecting the soldiers of the Wehrmacht in Prague following it's annexation to the Reich, circa 1939.
A Czech Partisan Commander inspecting his Sten Gun prior to the uprising in 1947.
As the allied Japanese-Czech juggernaut was approaching the city of Prague, the Czech resistance was planning an uprising to end the German Occupation which had lasted for a little over 9 years. All the while, the Germans were preparing the city for war as they were fortifying the Prague for the oncoming Japanese hordes. Below them in the sewers of Prague, the Czech Resistance were stockpiling arms and munitions for the planned uprising, as well as making other preparations like setting up a headquarters and staging areas.
A German Hanomag Halftrack driving along in the streets of Prague as part of the planned "Festung Prag", circa 1948.
Reinhard Heydrich, the Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, he would survive the assassination attempt by Czech partisans as part of Operation Anthropoid in 1942.
On the night of April 27th, 1948, Reinhard Heydrich surrendered to the Czech Resistance, in which the man who supply his former enemies the maps and critical information about the German forces in and around the city of Prague. For this, he had announced that he was intending to defect to the Japanese, as he realized that Germany and going to be crushed by Japan. The agents of the Nakano Spy School would extract Heydrich from the Prague and bring him back to the headquarters of General Yamashita at Modlin Fortress.
Czech partisans springing out of their hideout as the uprising commenced.
On May 2nd, the Czech partisans made their move and initiated the Uprising, with the Nakano Spy School giving the partisans information about German forces as well as arms. It all started when the Partisans seized the local radio station from the Germans and transmitted a call for an uprising in Czech, a language never spoken since 1939 on that station. The partisans would clash with German Wehrmacht and SS troops in and around the city, and along with the Pro-German Russians of the POA*. There was an intense street by street, house by house, and room by room fighting, the Germans were caught completely disorganized as a majority of their troops were placed on the outskirts of the city for an expected Japanese attack on the city. Within a couple of days, the Czech partisan forces would quickly get the edge over their German occupiers, such much so, that the POA would turn on the Germans and join the partisans.
Czech Partisans dueling with German SS troops in the streets of Prague.
A partisan captured Jagdpanzer 38(t) Hetzer, with it's 75mm main gun replaced by an MG-42 for anti-infantry purposes.
A Group of Partisans on a bridge near Wenceslas Square, as it was they were preparing for a German Counter-Attack.
Re-enactors dressed up as members of the POA as part of the reenactment for the Prague Uprising in Prague, the capital of the Czechoslovak State, circa 2015. During the Battle, a majority of these Russian Troops had turned their guns on their German Masters and joined the rebels.
A German officer on the pavement after being shot in the head by shrapnel.
A Czech Partisan preparing to use his Panzerfaust on an un-pictured Panther tank which was driving down the street.
Partisans enjoying a break in the fighting.
The remains of a German Hetzer tank in a Prague street, several days after the cessation of hostilities.
A Czechoslovak T-34/85 carrying troops entering Prague, circa 1948.
After several intense days of fighting, the Czech Partisans would cause the remaining German troops in Prague to surrender to them on May 8th, 1948. Thus, ending 9 years of nonstop German occupation of the city. Two days later on the 10th, the forward units of the Czechoslovak Legion and the Imperial Japanese Army entered the city and found that the Partisans had already liberated their capital from the Germans. Thus, it was the last European capital under German occupation to fall. Days later, during a parade, the new leader of the Czechoslovak State Emerged, that was one Edvard Benes, the prewar leader of Czechoslovakia.
Edvard Benes during the Prague Liberation Parade in 1948.
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* = The POA or the Russian Liberation Army, was a formation within the German Army which was comprised of Russians who were recruited by the Germans as POWs into the Wehrmacht as 2nd Line Troops.
Adolf Hitler inspecting the soldiers of the Wehrmacht in Prague following it's annexation to the Reich, circa 1939.
A Czech Partisan Commander inspecting his Sten Gun prior to the uprising in 1947.
As the allied Japanese-Czech juggernaut was approaching the city of Prague, the Czech resistance was planning an uprising to end the German Occupation which had lasted for a little over 9 years. All the while, the Germans were preparing the city for war as they were fortifying the Prague for the oncoming Japanese hordes. Below them in the sewers of Prague, the Czech Resistance were stockpiling arms and munitions for the planned uprising, as well as making other preparations like setting up a headquarters and staging areas.
A German Hanomag Halftrack driving along in the streets of Prague as part of the planned "Festung Prag", circa 1948.
Reinhard Heydrich, the Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, he would survive the assassination attempt by Czech partisans as part of Operation Anthropoid in 1942.
On the night of April 27th, 1948, Reinhard Heydrich surrendered to the Czech Resistance, in which the man who supply his former enemies the maps and critical information about the German forces in and around the city of Prague. For this, he had announced that he was intending to defect to the Japanese, as he realized that Germany and going to be crushed by Japan. The agents of the Nakano Spy School would extract Heydrich from the Prague and bring him back to the headquarters of General Yamashita at Modlin Fortress.
Czech partisans springing out of their hideout as the uprising commenced.
On May 2nd, the Czech partisans made their move and initiated the Uprising, with the Nakano Spy School giving the partisans information about German forces as well as arms. It all started when the Partisans seized the local radio station from the Germans and transmitted a call for an uprising in Czech, a language never spoken since 1939 on that station. The partisans would clash with German Wehrmacht and SS troops in and around the city, and along with the Pro-German Russians of the POA*. There was an intense street by street, house by house, and room by room fighting, the Germans were caught completely disorganized as a majority of their troops were placed on the outskirts of the city for an expected Japanese attack on the city. Within a couple of days, the Czech partisan forces would quickly get the edge over their German occupiers, such much so, that the POA would turn on the Germans and join the partisans.
Czech Partisans dueling with German SS troops in the streets of Prague.
A partisan captured Jagdpanzer 38(t) Hetzer, with it's 75mm main gun replaced by an MG-42 for anti-infantry purposes.
A Group of Partisans on a bridge near Wenceslas Square, as it was they were preparing for a German Counter-Attack.
Re-enactors dressed up as members of the POA as part of the reenactment for the Prague Uprising in Prague, the capital of the Czechoslovak State, circa 2015. During the Battle, a majority of these Russian Troops had turned their guns on their German Masters and joined the rebels.
A German officer on the pavement after being shot in the head by shrapnel.
A Czech Partisan preparing to use his Panzerfaust on an un-pictured Panther tank which was driving down the street.
Partisans enjoying a break in the fighting.
The remains of a German Hetzer tank in a Prague street, several days after the cessation of hostilities.
A Czechoslovak T-34/85 carrying troops entering Prague, circa 1948.
After several intense days of fighting, the Czech Partisans would cause the remaining German troops in Prague to surrender to them on May 8th, 1948. Thus, ending 9 years of nonstop German occupation of the city. Two days later on the 10th, the forward units of the Czechoslovak Legion and the Imperial Japanese Army entered the city and found that the Partisans had already liberated their capital from the Germans. Thus, it was the last European capital under German occupation to fall. Days later, during a parade, the new leader of the Czechoslovak State Emerged, that was one Edvard Benes, the prewar leader of Czechoslovakia.
Edvard Benes during the Prague Liberation Parade in 1948.
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* = The POA or the Russian Liberation Army, was a formation within the German Army which was comprised of Russians who were recruited by the Germans as POWs into the Wehrmacht as 2nd Line Troops.
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