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Start the day in the Žižkov district, a politically active working-class area, to discover Socialist-realism art from the Communist era, local bars, independent artists’ studios, and seasonal street events.
Visit a Cold War–era nuclear bunker used for civil defense. Continue to the hilltop Vítkov National Memorial, a monumental site used heavily for communist military propaganda, where exhibitions reveal 20th-century warfare and the exercise of state power.
After a lunch break, continue to Lidice, the village destroyed by Nazi forces in June 1942 as a brutal reprisal for Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. The village was razed, men executed, women deported to camps, and most children murdered or forcibly Germanized, becoming a symbol of Nazi terror.
Visit the crypt of Operation Anthropoid and study the tradecraft of the Czech resistance and British SOE.
Start Time
Apr 16
Žižkov, Prague