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The protectorate began in March 1939, but two years later Prague underwent drastic changes. Berlin decided that one of the cruelest representatives of Germany would take over the sluggish administration of the country, and the architects were preparing big changes in Prague. Go with them on a short tour of Prague in 1941 through archival photographs. In the picture Vclavsk namst in 1941.

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life in the Protectorate of Echo and Moravia in 1941 was decidedly not easy. The population had to be saved with a farming system, spoiled food, executions and severe repression of the Nazi regime. In 1941, the census of the Jewish population began in Prague.

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The letter V was part of a propaganda campaign, symbolizing faith in the Great Konmeck e. This campaign took place on the territory of the Protectorate from September 1941 to January of the following year. In the picture Vclavsk namst in 1941.

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Karlovy Vary in 1941. Germany’s propaganda was in full swing, including bilingual inscriptions. Name always comes first. Prague began to be rendered as an old German city that would develop under the rule of

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One film after another was shot in the Barandov studios. Comedy shows were also shown in the cinemas, in 1941 people went to see the films Pednosta stationa, Roztomil lovk, Provdm svou enu or Hotel Modr hvzda, for example.

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Cracked samples of the fair to be inserted in Prague (7th of 1941). In May 1941, Hitler controlled practically all of Europe. In 1941, Nazi Germany succeeded in the eastern battles, the soldiers occupied Kiev and began to besiege Leningrad.

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Merchants at Kamp in 1941. The Pdlov system changed the functioning of the economy dramatically. Remembrancers will surely remember how food was found on the black market and how it was destroyed, said historian Petr Koura for Czech Radio.

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Over the years, the countryside began to give way to the city. This means that people who were born in the countryside very often went to the countryside first for food. And at first these foods were then traded on the black market, although food transport controls were passed and the black market was very cruel, declared historian Petr Koura. In the photo, the face of the blice burst in 1941.

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A view of Lucerna, where a concert was held in support of the WHW (Winterhilfswerk Winter in aid of the event), which was attended by the head of the work, Konstantin Hierl. (January 25, 1941)

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Collected from a hockey match at the Winter Stadium in Prague, which was watched by Viktor Lutze, a member of the SA team. The picture was taken on November 8, 1941.

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A view of the full stands of the Winter Stadium in Prague during the hockey match, which was watched by Viktor Lutze, a member of the SA team. Estonian tribune decorated with the flag of the protectorate. (8 November 1941)

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In Prague, on November 9, 1941, in Staromstsk Square, a ceremonial parade of new members of the 52nd Division of the SA took place.

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SA festive evening in the Smetanov district of the Municipal House for the SA asti fa tbu, SA-Obergruppenführer Viktor Lutz

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The building of the SS Standortkommandatury in Prague with the designation SS (Primary Faculty). Photographed on March 20, 1941.

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Passage of Hitler’s regiment Magdeburg-Anhalt from Dran to Prague, Jirsk bridge in the background (23rd of April 1941)

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Der Tag der Leibesbungen (Day of the Body Breeding) in Prague on Strahov (21st of 1941)

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Prask samples of the fair at the Old Town in Prague (7th of 1941)

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On the ground of the protectorate, it was forbidden to heat with gas and electricity, and coal was not enough. But the worst times were still to drink. Pictured in Prague Radotn around 1941.

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The dark ages are here. On the 27th of 1941, the SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Police, head of the Security Service (RSHA) and the Security Service (SD) and Interpol president Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich, piloted a Junkers 52 transport plane to Kebelsk. On the same day that he was flying to Kebel, he had the head of the government, Elie, arrested and later executed. On that day, he was preparing to declare war on the first day, and the courts of the German people began handing out death sentences in a matter of minutes.

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According to the Nazi plans from World War II, Prague was supposed to turn into a Germanic city as quickly as possible. Albert Speer, Adolf Hitler’s court architect, had a known influence on this. In the photo, Albert Speer (from the right) during a tour of Prague, Reinhard Heydrich on the right. Photographed on December 4, 1941.

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The revolution brought about changes, for example, with the demolition of the Old Town Hall, the demolition of the Municipal House, the destruction of the Petensk lookout tower, but on the other hand, with the construction of the subway and the megalomaniac transport and traffic boulevard that would run through the center of the city. Within a few years, the face of Prague will be German, even though only 21,000 Germans lived in the city of one million, declared in 1941 the architect Reinhold Niemeyer, chairman of the planning commission that was to coordinate and implement these proposals. In the photo of the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the death of music composer WA Mozart in Prague, the ceremonial laying of the foundation stone for his memorial in front of the Rudolfinum building. Photographed on December 5, 1941.

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A unique tour of protective Prague

Prague according to Hitler. That’s how the Nazis wanted to change it

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