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The "Josef Hybeš" Czech partisan group, under the command of A. Řepka, killed 30 to 35 Germans and alleged Czech collaborators of Nazi Germany. 18 of them were executed after the trial of a "revolutionary people's court" on May 10, 1945; [21] 10 names are documented by a German source, 17 names from Czech documents. [22] Brno Death March
The Leskovice massacre was the mass murder of twenty-five Czech civilians in May 1945 by Waffen-SS troops on the orders of Nazi officer Walter Hauck inside the village of Leskovice during the World War II.
Pages in category "Nazi war crimes in Czechoslovakia" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
Once a unified Czechoslovakia was restored after World War II (after the country had been divided during the war), the conflict between the Czechs and the Slovaks surfaced again. The governments of Czechoslovakia and other Central European nations deported ethnic Germans, reducing the presence of minorities in the nation.
The last execution in Czechoslovakia took place on 8 June 1989, when Štefan Svitek was hanged in Bratislava prison for triple murder; in today's Czech Republic the last executed person was Vladimír Lulek, hanged on 2 February 1989 in Pankrác Prison for murder of his wife and four children. The last person sentenced to death was Zdeněk ...
Gulf War: Czechoslovakia United States and other Iraq: 1 killed Victory 1999 Kosovo War: NATO including the Czech Republic: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: None Victory 2002-2021 War in Afghanistan: Czech Republic United States United Kingdom and others Insurgents 14 killed Defeat 2003-2009 Iraq War [6] Czech Republic United States United ...
German forces committed war crimes against Czech civilians throughout the uprising. Many people were killed in summary executions, and the SS used Czech civilians as human shields, [1] [6] forced them to clear barricades at gunpoint, and threatened to shoot hostages in revenge for German soldiers killed in action. [89]
The result of the war was the new demarcation line, which expanded the territory controlled by Czechoslovakia. It led to a new division of the region of Cieszyn Silesia in July 1920, and left a substantial Polish minority in Czechoslovakia in the region later called Trans-Olza because the demarcation line ran through the Olza river.