The Prague Uprising (1945) - The Last Uprising during World War II
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- The Prague Uprising was a major event that occurred towards the end of World War II in the city of Prague, Czechoslovakia. Then occupied by Germany and known as the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. It was a last-ditch effort by the Czech resistance to take control of the city before the Soviet Red Army arrived and liberated it from Nazi occupation. The uprising began on May 5th, 1945, when the Czech resistance launched coordinated attacks on German occupying forces throughout the city. Over the next few days, the resistance fought fiercely against the Germans, with the support of some Soviet troops who had entered the city. Also men of the pro-Axis Russin Liberation Army (ROA) took part in the battle. However, the situation quickly became complicated. The Germans responded to the uprising with brutal force, and fierce street battles raged throughout the city. The Czech resistance was also divided, with different factions vying for control and sometimes turning on each other. Despite these challenges, the uprising continued to gain momentum, and by May 8th, the resistance controlled much of the city center. However, the Germans were still heavily armed and fiercely determined to maintain control. In the end, the Prague Uprising was largely unsuccessful. The Germans ultimately regained control of the city, and the Red Army did not arrive until the following day. The fighting continued until May 11th, when the Germans finally surrendered to the Soviets. The Prague Uprising was a significant event in the history of Czechoslovakia, and it is often seen as a symbol of resistance against Nazi oppression. However, it also came at a high cost, with thousands of Czechs killed and much of the city destroyed in the fighting.
History Hustle presents: The Prague Uprising (1945) - The Last Uprising of World War II.
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If you're in Prague, is there a chance that you could visit Cieszyn? There's a museum there, the Museum of Cieszyn Silesia - you could make a video about the short-lived Duchy of Cieszyn 1918-1919.
@@aleksanderwielopolski8205 didn't make it there this time.
How about doing something about Laotian during the Vietnam war my friend I enjoy your History channel CZcams
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the main reason was that Czechs didn´t want to become a pathetic colony of Moscow barbaric Marxist empire
A statue of General Konev in Prague was recently torn down due to resentment to the Soviets. The conclusion of the Prague Uprising is a bitter subject for Czechs to this day.
That "thank you America memorial" is next. It's utterly bizarre seeing that kind of sentiment towards America from *Europeans* , of all people. Wow. We're accustomed to receiving full-throated abuse and contempt.
@@Heike-- No, the "thank you America memorial" will remain, as we are thankfull and have the best relationship with the US these days...
No idea who you are, but I suppose you're German, based on your name Heike - so please stop voting for AfD and get your things in Germany done first...
It was not torn but rather moved to the museum depository. Unfortunately the statue had became a meeting point for some crazy extremists.
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Because Koněv did not liberate Prague, but already arrived in the liberated city. Prague was liberated by the people of Prague themselves with the help of the RLA
Thank you very much for the video ! I understand from Czechs that it was not really a liberation in 1945 , but a change of management , basically the Soviets replaces the Facists , which both were comiting terrible crimes , for example, Jáchymov work labor camps
Until 1948 it was a democracy.
Must have been a reason
The Russians already left in June 1945. However, the Communist Party won the 1946 elections, which carried out the 1948 coup d'état. The Russians were not allowed to have military bases for the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968
Soviets didnt replace anyone, the Czechs were a democracy after the war and chose to vote for communism
Great insight
The early 80s Soviet made TV documentary series ‘The Unknown War’ whitewashed this event into an effort by the Czech people and the Red Army only. Also skipped the fact that Patton’s troops were so close.
and Vlasov troops :D
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks. Great video. BZ.
A seminal moment in Czech history.
Side note. American Leutenant Eugene Fodor and two others drove a Jeep to the headquarters of the Uprising on Bartolomějská St. in center of Prague and offered to drive someone from the Czech underground leadership to the American headquarters in Plzeň. However the Communists, who were already the dominant force in Prague, preferred to wait for the Red Army.
Well, I’m a funny person I’m an American but we gotta follow the will of the people they want to follow the Russians in the shower union and as you know, communism cracked out so they got what they wish for. Ain’t that your stuff.
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Many MANY MANY thanks for your support Jesse. Have a good weekend!!
A wonderful historical introduction of Czech 🇨🇿 uprising against Nazism invaders during WW2....it was informative historical coverage and labeled to all details of those events ...thank you, sir Stefan, for sharing
Learning more with every documentary. Thank you!
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Great Content Stefan, have a wonderful weekend 👍
Yes! Many thanks Jesse!
To say that Czech resistance from 1938-39 was "Unorganised" is not very accurate. Truth is, that many members of the resistance were not really prepared for what was to come. Many leaders had experiences from resistance movement during the First World War, but Austrian secret police was not by far as unscrupulous and cruel as Gestapo. Underestimating the Nazis led to huge losses in the movement.
There was even more trouble regarding Communist and left wing resistance, whose members were instructed by Moscow not to resist the Nazis, due to good relations between Germany and USSR after signing of Molotov-Ribbentropp pact. This changed after operation Barbarossa, but cooperation between branches of the resistance was still complicated. Thank you for your video, btw
Thanks for sharing.
Wow never knew this! Good to learn, good video
Thanks for your reply!
And once again I learned a lot of new things here today! Appreciate it a lot 👍
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Thanks for watching!
Prague was the first capital occupied by the Nazis and the last liberated capital. The Soviets preferred to rush to Berlin to be there first than the Americans and only then withdraw from Germany to Prague. Stalin forced the demarcation line and so the USA could not advance further into Bohemia. It's a shame, Czech history could have looked different after the war.
I would like to join the myth of the liberation of Russia. They were not only Russians, but also Ukrainians, Belarusians and other peoples of the USSR. Today, only Russia claims this victory, but other states of the USSR should also claim it. Today, Russia uses World War II in propaganda.
But it was in Russia where Germany lost the war the whole Belarus and Ukraine were fully occupied by the Germans but Germans couldn't manage to take over Moscow or Leningrad
@@JDDC-tq7qm Because Belarus and Ukraine were the western part of the USSR. All the nations of the USSR fought in the Red Army. It's not just about the Russians.
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@@paceeterna9826 You occupiers didn't liberate us at all, they just occupied us. We are certainly not grateful to you for that🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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What I learned, today. Thanks.
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That was a good video. Nothing to add. Take care.
Thanks for your reply.
Great Job.." At tying this historic Event together
Thanks for watching.
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I am watching this video too late, but again i've noticed a mistake. Himmler never promoted A. Vlasov to the rank of full general (at leat because he couldn't, only Hitler himself could do it), Vlasov was Lieutenant-General during the whole war. But some years ago one Russian historian found one document in the German archives dated by March'45. According to this document Vlasov got a salary from the SS as SS-Gruppenfuehrer (and it approved my sentences that Vlason didn't promote to full general rank) and members of his staff also according to the SS-ranking equal with their army ranks. This document was published in one book, if you're interested I can try to find this book for you.
Hey stefan great video. I wanted to ask can you make a video on Czechoslovakia coup in 1948 which kickstarted the formation of nato ?I don't hear anyone talking about this topic
Interesting topic and a very good video!
1968 I knew, not this one. Thanks for the history lesson 😊
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great video bro for featuring prague uprising
Many thanks!
Another excellent contribution. I’ve noticed you say “assault “rather than “rape”. Is this to conform to some CZcams guideline or you responding to the delicate sensibilities of a generation of viewers who would be upset by brutal truth?
Very good video! But it's a pity that you didn't mention the most important success of Czech resistance - the assassination of Heydrich. "Reinhard Heydrich, the commander of the German Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), the acting governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and a principal architect of the Holocaust, was assassinated during the Second World War in a coordinated operation by the Czechoslovak resistance. The assassination attempt, code-named Operation Anthropoid, was carried out by resistance operatives Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš on 27 May 1942. Heydrich was wounded in the attack and died of his injuries on 4 June."
In occupied Europe, no other partisans managed to do anything like this - to kill such a high-ranking Nazi.
Thanks. In the future a special episode on the Heydrich assassination.
Another fine summary.
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Can you make the 1968 Prague Spring when Warsaw Pact invade Czechoslovakia
Wish I made it but didn't have the time to record that one. Sorry!
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in the subtitles is "missouri station" :D its T. G. Masaryk station. Funny is that the Germans surrendered to the Czechs NOT soviets.
Haha, thanks. I wasn't able to finnish the subtitles and I am this weekend in Maastricht. Will finnish the subs when back!
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Nice to see not all Dutchmen are kickboxers
Same in Warsow earlyer
Soviets cared only about putting their flag to Berlin the fast as they can, they didn't care about actual liberation and helping to countries they were going thru. Prague uprising started because people believed that Soviets are near and they will help fast, but they just bypassed Prague and let Prague bleed, they did the same to Warsaw.
What is the point of that? Never start uprasing prematurely. 😀
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In hindsight things didnt really get better.
Just look at the 3 CSA flights that flew erfurt air base in west germany years later...
6:12 When I used to live in Russia (in Eastern Russia), 90% of the local population hated me for being pro-Russian liberation army and pro-Vlasov. Those anti-communist forces were heroic, because they were against bloody Stalin, and, eventually, they helped the brave Czech fighters to make Prague Czech again! 🇨🇿 Was Vlasov a real Nazi? No. Was he a traitor? No. Were other anti-communist fighters such as Krasnov or Smyslovsky traitors? Sure, not.
And simpler terms, the Russian POW went with whoever was in power at the time.
Mila 18 is a wonderful novel for anyone interested in this content. Leon Uris
Thanks for sharing.
Basically, the Soviets did the same thing they didn’t Warsaw. They didn’t want a pro West government in Czechoslovakia any more than they wanted a pro with government in Poland, and simpler terms of the Russians were a bunch of weasels.
uh no, at that time, most of the soviet red army troops, espeically ivan konev's 1st Ukrainian front which were moving from Berlin after the battle to Prague, and the 2nd Ukrainian Front having to deal with fierce resistance from Schörner's Army Group Centre can't basically liberate Prague. Also, in 1946, Czechoslovakia has a free parliamentary election before they were suppressed by the 1948 Communist Coup d'teat
@@MVs1940 Elections were maybe free, but communists were using practices which would be totaly illegal today, they murdered some politicians, sending bombs in letters to scare their political opponents and so on, so yes, they won election, but it was more like war, not an election.
After the Reich, by Giles MacDonogh, Chapter 4.
Please explain.
"Are you sure Hitler is dead? Ok, now we can have an uprising!"
1. Actually, Czech and Slovaks had military units in the UK and Russia fighting the whole war.
2. As stated by the video, Prague citizens wanted to have a right to determine their future.
3. Judging by your name, determination is something that your people know very little about...
The Russian Liberation Army deserves a shout out for helping liberate Prague
Made a seperate video on it
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the allies should found a loophole for the Russian liberation army
They were cornered between the rock and the hard place .
it seems insane that the Germans were still fighting after Hitler's death.. suppressing the people of the countries they had occupied .. fanaticism. thankyou for another extremely interesting and thought provoking video.
No fanaticism. Were defending German civilians from Czech atrocities.
@@peterwenz7 Germans had invaded Czechoslovakia and had murdered tens of thousands of Czechs. 1945 was the year they got payback. the Germans who went into occupied countries as settlers were going as a new kind of overlords they imagined, the native peoples of Europe would be their serfs forevermore. they were wrong. and as a consequence were to suffer in the last year of the war as the Allies smashed their "invincible armies" and overran their empire. after 1945 the German nation should have been broken up into pre 1871 borders and never allowed to reunify again.
@@peterwenz7neo-nazi try not to be a hypocrite challenge (impossible):
While Soviets looked how Germans destroy Varšava, Americans watched as Germans destroy Práh
Luckily the city was not heavily destroyed.
I don't understand why any of the Germans would want to fight the Czech after Berlin was lost?
Survival
Fanatism
It is a shame that so many people died here. You would think that when the German troops heard Hitler was dead, they would have hightailed it out of there. But of course things are never that black and white. I salute the Czechs for their pride and bravery 🫡
"New Košice government also ignored the uprising." - That's a lie! The Czechoslovak government in Košice urged the Czech people to uprise against Germans on daily basis since it was established in April, they tried to send its emissaries to every center of uprising that lasted long enough against Germans. They proclaimed insurgend the troops as part of the Czechoslovak army to ensure for them the protection of Hague Conventions. And when uprising in Prague started, they negotiate efortlesly with every Allied government to send supplies and military help to the insurgents. So why did you tell such a lie?!
A lie is intentional. I have no intentions to lie and talk about history without bias. I try.
See sources below the video.
@@HistoryHustle OK. Sorry for the harsh words, but this one really made me upset. So which one source come this nonsense from? None of the online ones, I took a look.
For the record: Yes, Czechoslovak government did not support the uprising directly, but because it was located 500 km far away and the Czechoslovak troops were no closer than 250 km from Prague (also, there was no Soviet army south of Prague). And yes, the government was unfriendly towards the leaders of uprising AFTER the war, but this was because they negotiated and dealed with ROA whitch worsened the relationship with Soviets.
Before the uprising and during the uprising the government and military leadership did what they could to ensure the diplomatic and military support for the uprising.
I am just afraid, there are no books translated into English I can recommand to you (I will write some titles to email)
@@HistoryHustle Also, there were no Soviet troops south of Prague when the uprising started (I know severeal Soviet generals named Belov, so I am not sure which army this is supposed to be).
The closest Soviet troops were those of 2th Ukrainian front fighting in the area of Brno, 180 km south-east of Prague. The 1st Ukrainian front in the area of Torgau was 190 km north of Prague. The 4th Ukrainian front was fighting in the area of Olomouc, 210 km east of Prague.
The American troops were in Pilsen, 80 km south-west of Prague. But they got the orders to stay still. Because of the politics.
Thanks for sharing.
The uprising wasn't only about self liberation, it was also about preventing Shörner's Army Group Centre retreat through Prague towards Germany and surrender to Allied forces.
Thanks for sharing.
Two independent separate nations, peoples: Czechs and Slovaks.
Ok.
as far as I know Germans did not bomb Prague during the uprising .... On the other hand USA did , in February and march 1945 (?)
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Same happened in 1989 as the Czechs were the last to throwout their communist regime. Czechoslovakia was the only occupied European country to increase its GDP between 1938-45 (about 25%). The Czechs did not want to be accused of collaboration , thus the uprising at the end of WW2. . In both cases not upsetting the occupiers or rulers was by far the safer option.
I believe the Bulgarian Communist Party was effectively in power til April 1990, when they changed their name to the Bulgarian Socialist Party. Then there were elections.
‘The result was a victory for the Bulgarian Socialist Party, the freshly renamed Communist Party, which won 211 of the 400 seats’.
@@rjames3981cool but why did you writed under comment about Czech uprising?
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@@Prometheus101 there isn't one we were as destoyed as anyone else
It's pretty easy to increase your GDP when you have slaves and who doesn't work will be shot with whole his family I guess. They could execute you for anything during protectorate, everyone had to just work for occupants or they shot him with whole family. If GPD went up, do you thing we had anything from that?
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7:39 "Thank you America memorial"!?!? WTF. Weird! That's got to be the only place in Europe with one of those. I wonder how many times a month it gets vandalized?
How ignorant of history can you be? America played no small part in saving the better part of humanity during WW2. Free Europe would be non-existent - Russia at large would be non-existent without Lend Lease American aid and American lives.
What the actual fuck are you even meme’ing on?
Well you will be surprised but not so many times in all those years. Soviet memorials are damaged, vandalized or even taken down in much bigger numbers ;)
It doesn't get vandalized. You're incredibly biased towards Europeans.
European intellectuals are nearly unanimous in the conviction that Americans and Europeans no longer share a common "strategic culture." America is dominated by a "culture of death," its warlike temperament the natural product of a violent society where every man has a gun and the death penalty reigns.
"Yanks go home" resonates with everyone in Europe - if not the entire world - if we are not to end up enslaved and subjugated by the greed that the USA is built upon.
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They "rose up" when the war was virtually over, others having done the fighting. When Germany surrendered, the Cowardly Czechs murdered disarmed German soldiers and hundreds of thousands of German civilians including Children. Before all this, the Czechs had massively collaborated with the German occupiers. Germans used to say..."the Czechs are more German then the Germans". The Czechs have nothing to boast about, and much to be ashamed of, including mass murder of German civilians. Millions of Czechs are residing on Stolen land and property!
Evil begets evil. He who sows the wind reaps the storm. The Czechs were not the only ones who took revenge, and you would have to understand that. Yes, it was a crime, but if a German murdered your family, you would react the same way.
Well this always happens when politicians are using people for their silly ideologies to "improve their society by enslaving others" .... so after the hated regime collapses the innocent as well as the guilty ones pay for it dearly .... or you think it would be better for Czechs to say to Germans -well it was a not a good time here (1938 - 1945) - you killed many of us , you killed nearly all Jews , you killed nearly all but 500 Bohemian Gypsies, you enslaved us, you destroyed our country, you planned to germanise us - but all is forgotten lets have a glass of beer together ...:) do not be silly mate, you got what you rightly deserved - you lived in Bohemia and Moravia in some cases for 600 - 700 years but you sided with Nazis and Herr Hitler, so you paid for your bad deeds including your leader killer Herr Frank, so that is how history works , all you got now is to cry ...:)
Nonsense.
"hundreds of thousands of German civilians" hunderds of millions would be more impresive and false in the same way. What should "massive collaboration" have been, obligatory work for the occupants? Same as everywhere in the occupied Europe.
Your Czechphobia is ridiculous, your lies as well.
Usually your analysis of things is pretty good, but in this case you are sadly way off. The reason German troops headed into Prague (as well as other cities in the are) was because the Czechs were slaughtering German civilians. The uprising was NOT directed towards the German military, but towards mostly German women and children. If you take the time to read the orders given to the German units as well as the unit histories, you will find that their sole purpose was to go into the areas where the Czech “hero’s” were killing German civilians and rescuing them and escorting them towards Austria. Which is exactly what they did. Very few German soldiers were killed in this uprising, but tens of thousands of German civilians were.
The Czechs passed a law right after shielding anyone who harmed Germans in any way after the War's end. At least a thousand German women and children (likely several times that) were slaughtered by the 'celebrating' Czechs.
No. I’m rather afraid that it is, in fact, your own pro - Nazi apologetics which are…’ way off ‘. However, I’m not saddened by those howlers and fibs whatsoever. It provides one with an opportunity to point to some rather typical outrages committed by the Nazis that you conveniently….’ forgot ‘, perhaps, to refer to ?
The gruesome massacre of Czech civilians at Masaryk Station, for one. The torture and murder of both civilian and resistance fighters undertaken by Luftwaffe ‘ soldiers ‘ and the cream of the Nazi crop, the debauched thugs of the SA, within the confines of the Na Prazaccece school.
The formation by Nazi ‘ troops ‘ of human walls composed of Czech men, women, and children to be violently compelled to stagger forward in front of those indomitable Aryan supermen. After, of course, they’d sated their appetites for plunder, wrecking, and thieving amongst retail establishments unfortunate enough to lay in their path.
As for the expulsion of Czechia’s ethnic German populace, this was the official policy mandated by the Government in Exile, and was not met with objections from the Allied powers. How do suppose that Henlein and his traitorous supporters, along with invading Nazi ‘ troops ‘ , had treated any Czech or Jewish residents of the Sudetenland upon its annexation ? To a Devonshire Tea ?
@@Albert-Arthur-Wison225 I notice you neither addressed nor refuted the fact that the Czech uprising murdered German civilians.
You're just using whataboutism. And in your last paragraph, you justify ethnic cleansing. You would have fit right in in Bosnia 1997.
Man history is filled with pro german apologetics. I thought this was a great comment until i started seeing his comments smh
Weird how your every comment on this channel is pro-nazi.