Fallen Czechoslovak soldiers’ remains repatriated

The remains of nine Czechoslovaks killed during World War II were officially repatriated at a ceremony on Prague’s Vítkov Hill on Friday. The remains are those of six members of the Iridium and Bronse paratrooper groups, sent from Britain and killed after their plane was shot down near Munich in March 1943. Two others belonged to the State Defence Guard—one a gendarme, the other a customs officer—executed by Henlein’s followers in September 1938 in Liptáň. Their bodies, buried in what is now Polish territory, were recently recovered and flown back to Prague. Relatives of the deceased received the Defence Ministry’s highest decoration from Minister Jana Černochová (Spolu). She thanked the German and Polish authorities for cooperation in retrieving the soldiers’ remains.