Photos of battle for Brno reshot in today’s streets

Let this small gallery commemorate the bloody events preceding April 26, 1945, the day the Red Army conquered Brno.

A war victim being buried in front of Mahen's theatre. Note the missing pillar.

Horse artillery going down the Milady Horákové st.

Red Army passing trough Tišnovská st. for a battle at Soběšice.

The pictures have been reprinted from Vojtěch Žampach’s book about the events of April 1945, called “Směr Brno” (“Direction: Brno”). I was directly inspired by Jason Powell’s gallery Looking into the past.

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