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“It is impossible that something like this can happen in the 20th century.” The Division II A – execution place in Pankrac.

Publication |
2008

Abstract

The submitted text deals with one aspect of the Nazi terror in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, particularly executions of opponents of occupation regime in Pankrac’s prison. Executions were carried out by guillotine from spring 1943.

Author describes both mechanism of these executions and artistic expressions of the prisoners in the “cell death”.