Excursion - revolutionary violence in Prague in May 1945

On Wednesday, May 10, as part of Ota Konrád's seminar "Violence in Modern History and the Present," an excursion took place on the topic of revolutionary violence in Prague in May 1945.

Led by historian Jaromír Mrňka, author of "Limits of Humanity. Politics and Social Practice of Collective Violence in the Czech Lands 1944-1946," the participants visited some of the sites of the fighting between Czech insurgents and German troops and the subsequent Czech retaliatory violence against the Germans in the center of Prague. The excursion ended at Republic Square, the site of a public lynching of an unknown German soldier immediately after the liberation of Prague in May 1945.