While walking around Prague last week we came across this little shrine and monument, bullet holes can clearly be seen in the wall and clearly it was something commemorating an event during the second world war. In 1942 the cathedral (Saints Cyril and Methodius) in the picture above was the last stand of six Czech resistance fighters who held out in the crypt of the church surrounded by 800 Nazi troops. The soldiers (trained by the SOE forces) were agents involved in the assassination of SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich (an architect of the Holocaust) and after a fierce gun battle two were killed and the rest committed suicide to avoid capture, a poignant reminder of the sacrifices made during that time.
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