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Refugees from the Sudetenland, following its annexation by Germany, arrive in Prague, Czechoslovakia, ca. October 1938.
Rooftops and Tower of Prague
Rooftops and Towers of Prague, 1942–1944, by Petr Ginz, watercolor and India ink on paper.
Prague at Night by Petr Ginz
Prague at Night, 1943, by Petr Ginz, pencil on paper. Petr references this piece in an entry from his diary from December, 1943. Petr writes, "Have read Plato’s Phaedo, Crito Continued work on Ceylon Picture: Prague at Night Bookbinding At the beginning of the month, transports to Birkenau (the Schenks), great chaos, I couldn’t do more. Lino-cut: At the shores of the Adriatic Sea."
Nazis invading Prague, 1939
Nazi troops guard the sparse crowd on hand to witness Germany's armed forces parade through the former Czechoslovakian capital, Prague. Thousands of German troops and mechanized units took part in the two-hour march on March 30, 1939.