I was inside when they forced their way in. At this moment I find it amusing but back then I haven’t laughed. The Russians had taken over the radio building sometime in the morning. Eventually, the technicians managed to connect various wires and get themselves on air – that means transmitted radio. 12 building have gotten out via this wire-radio. So the initial news from the Vinohradská No. They had it in pubs and even individuals could have obtained it.
It was a network distributed throughout the country via telephone lines. It was a thing which doesn’t exist anymore.
But an interesting thing is that they had forgotten wire-transmitted radio. Obviously, the first thing the occupants did was that they took over communications and all the transmitters so that radio went silent. The radio building remains a very complicated structure to this day. Czech: JIŘÍK Václav – Nedaleko od Norimberku: z dějin Mimořádného lidového soudu v Chebu v letech 1946 až 1948, Cheb 2000 Not far from Nürnberg: From the history of the Extraordinary People's Court in Cheb from 1946 to 1948.Ĭoordinates: 50☁6′27″N 12☄6′43″E / 50.27417°N 12.77861☎ / 50.27417 12.“This is where the very interesting episode from the history of the Czech Radio took place.A short history of the Nová Role concentration camp between the years of 1942–1945, also including the death march from the camp on 20 April 1945: unpublished manuscript deposited with the municipality of Nová Role. Czech: FRNKA Ladislav – Stručná historie koncnetračního tábora v Nové Roli z let 1942–1945 a pochodu smrti z tohoto tábora z 20.část zvláštní přílohy Novorolského zpravodaje, 1985 Nová Role and its neighborhood today and in the past. Czech: ČERVENÝ Jaroslav a kol. – Nová Role a okolí dnes a dříve, 1.(in Czech) Neviditelný pes, HISTORIE: Krvavé jaro 1945 This article about the Zwodau- Svatava concentration camp near the Czech town of Sokolov contains some information about te Nová Role camp.(in Czech) Na nacistické koncentrační tábory se v ČR zapomíná A Czech BBC interviewer is asking some former inmates of the camp about their knowledge and memories of the camp.(in Czech) Novorolský zpravodaj červen 2008 The front page contains a short account about the death march.Temná minulost Nové Role This article contains some eyewitness accounts describing life in the camp. (in Czech) Koncentrační tábor v Nové Roli 1942–1945 This is a short history of the camp with photos.After World War II, the camp served as a collecting camp for prisoners of war before their removal to Germany. At least 41 prisoners died in the camp (unearthed from the mass grave in June 1945) about 500 died during the death march out in April 1945 an unknown number died after their deportation back to the mother camps ( Ravensbrück and Flossenbürg) and some others were burnt in the camp in Karlovy Vary. Its main purpose was providing workers for the nearby Bohemia porcelain factory. The Germans founded the camp in the autumn of 1942 and closed it in April 1945. It was located on the edge of the municipality Neurohlau (now Nová Role) in the historical territory of Sudetenland (in the present-day Czech Republic). Neurohlau was a subcamp of Flossenbürg concentration camp, mainly for women prisoners of several European nationalities including Czech, Soviet, Yugoslavian, Belgian, Polish, and German. The plan of the camp, standing near the memorial in front of the train station in Nová Role