Pankrác Prison, officially Prague Pankrác Remand Prison, is a prison in Prague, Czech Republic. A part of the Czech Prison Service, it is located southeast of Prague city centre in Pankrác, not far fr
Guillotine used by the Nazis to behead members of the Czech Resistance. It was recovered from the Vltava River, where it was disposed of by the German Nazis fleeing from the town in May 1945.
War criminal Kurt Daluege, chief of the German national Order Police, carried out the massacres of Lidice and Ležáky following the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the 3rd highest-ranking Nazi. Daluege was hanged at Pankrác prison on October 24, 1946
View of the High Court in Prague building in front of the Pankrác Prison, to which it is connected by underground corridor.
The historical exhibition at the prison, which is not open to the general public.
Karel Čurda was a Czech resistance fighter who later became a Nazi collaborator during World War II. He informed on the assassins of Reinhard Heydrich, who were later all cornered and killed.
Pankrác Prison
…Augustin Přeučil Karel Čurda Victims of Communism…
Operace Anthropoid Karel Čurda