Historical site: Dukla

[PKMann]

... about 1 kilometer down the road into Slovakia is on the left hand side a large monument for the fallen czechoslovakian soldiers of the first brigade which was commanded by Gen. Ludvik Svoboda
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[PKMann]

... more pics of that monument.

This place is one of the national shrines of the (former) Czechoslovakian Republik
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[Adrian Stevenson]

Thanks for the update.

Cheers, Ade.

[Glenn66]

What is the story behind the broken heart stone?

[PKMann]

... the following pics are all from weapons which will stand here all over as momoral for the heavy fightings between the Red Army and the defending german 8th Panzer division. In that area the germans have used more than 100.000 mines (!!!) against the incoming Soviets.

The cleaning of the whole Dukla Pass area would have been officially ended in 1965, some 20 years after the war. About 100.000 mines would have been found and it is beliveable that another thousands would have been left out in the wood ... One good advice would be : ... never leave the signposted ways
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[PKMann]

What is the story behind the broken heart stone?

Well ... In No. 139 of the After the Battle magazine you'll find the whole story of the Dukla Pass operations. The Cracket Heart Monument market the place where Gen. Vedral-Sazavskys command car was blown up by a german anti-tank mine which killed everyone on board this car

Pic 4 - the grave of Gen. Vedral-Sazavskys
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[PKMann]

This place named Nizna Pisana is about 5 km south of the border ... here have been the main german defence line with bunkers ... driving carefully and ever watching out for tanks an Artillery ...
It's a pity that our our programe here presents the pics not numerical so that it's not easy to tell the story. The road shown is a little sideroad where most of the pieces are located ... officially it's not allowed to drive on that road ... I've done
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[PKMann]

... 65 years ago the czechoslovakian artillery shot from that position at the defending German Wehrmacht
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[PKMann]

... eastern weapons and the german bunker line
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[PKMann]

... the guns and the aircraft an Iljuschin Il-2 „Stormovik“ are located at Nizny Komarnik ... the bunkers belong to area of the last posting
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