Panenske Brezany, Central Bohemia, Dec 8 (CTK) – The Czech national oppression and resistance memorial centre opened in Panenske Brezany near Prague on Thursday, its exhibition including the table of Sudeten German leader Konrad Henlein and a copy of the Nazi guillotine from the Prague-Pankrac prison.
The exhibition also shows the original memorial plaque from London’s Porchester Gate where the assassination of high-ranking Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich was planned, said Hana Zavorkova, director of the district museum that administers the memorial centre.
The exhibition is seated in the Upper Chateau in Panenske Brezany, in which Secretary of State Karl Hermann Frank lived during the Nazi occupation when the country was turned into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
Reichsprotektor Konstantin von Neurath and his deputy Heydrich lived in the Lower Chateau in Panenske Brezany. In 1942, Heydrich succumbed to injuries he suffered in an assassination attempt by Czech paratroopers, the so-called Operation Anthropoid.
The exhibition presents this anti-Nazi operation, which is considered one of the biggest actions of the Czechoslovak resistance movement, as well as other events from World War Two.
Permanent exhibitions on WW2 can also been seen in the Lidice and Terezin memorials.
The Panenske Brezany exhibition also shows the history of the Upper Chateau, the reconstruction of which has recently been completed. The garden and the St Anne’s Chapel by Baroque architect Jan Blazej Santini-Aichel have been reopened.
