Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: right tool of Nazi expansion

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207 around the canal in the center of the room, where traces of blood are still visible. Then the body was placed in coffins made of planks and about 17 o'clock carried by truck to a terrible crematorium, where under the supervision of the members of the Gestapo was cremated and the ashes were spilled into the pits of the crematory. On the night of 30 April to 1. On May 1945, the Nazis dismantled the metal part of the execution site and to cover their crimes dropped a steel knife and other parts of the guillotine into the Vltava River. After a few weeks, however, they were discovered and picked up from the river just below Charles Bridge, the execution ground was rebuilt in its original place and today they form one of the main parts of Museum Pankrácké akyrárna (591), reminiscent of the victims of more than 300,000 Czechoslovakos. Patriots who perished during Nazi cruelty.