The military occupation of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany began with the German annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, continued with the creation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and by th
From left to right: Chamberlain, Daladier, Hitler, Mussolini, and Ciano pictured before signing the Munich Agreement, which gave the Sudetenland to Germany
Edvard Beneš, the second President of Czechoslovakia and leader of the Czechoslovak government-in-exile
Ethnic Germans in Saaz, Sudetenland, greet German soldiers with the Nazi salute, 1938.
Hácha, Hitler and Göring meeting in Berlin, 14/15 March 1939
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The Prague uprising was a partially successful attempt by the Czech resistance movement to liberate the city of Prague from German occupation in May 1945, during the end of World War II. The preceding
Prague residents putting up a barricade, 6 May. In the background, a German-language sign has been painted over.
Prague shop owner painting over German-language signage on 4 May
Barricade at Olšany cemetery
Captured AMR 35 tanks deployed by insurgents on Bartolomějská street in the Old Town