Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:38:23 +0200Czech WWII resistance fighters' remains may still be in use at German medical facultieshttps://english.radio.cz/czech-wwii-resistance-fighters-remains-may-still-be-use-german-medical-faculties-8625501© 2026 Radio Prague InternationalThe corpses of some of Czechoslovakia's most celebrated war heroes may be serving as models in anatomy classes in Germany and Austria to this day. Thousands of political prisoners were murdered at the Ploetzensee detention and execution centre outside Berlin during WWII. Among them were nearly seven hundred Czech and Slovak resistance fighters, whose bodies were immediately sent on to medical universities and institutions within the Third Reich.encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/4f5197446b1f6808606b2a0aab5e5a67.png?timestamp=1583150525 Czech WWII resistance fighters' remains may still be in use at German medical faculties https://english.radio.cz/czech-wwii-resistance-fighters-remains-may-still-be-use-german-medical-faculties-8625501 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9