1421/6 Bendlova (now Ševčíkova) Street

Apartment of Pokorný

Representatives of clandestine resistance groups, operating under the code names ‘Bartoš’ (led by Gen. Karel Kutlvašr) and ‘Alex’ (led by Gen. František Slunečko), were the primary architects and implementers of the plan for the Prague Uprising. Established in late April and early May 1945, both groups emerged from circles of former Czechoslovak army officials involved in domestic military resistance since the onset of the war. (House of the stone table, Bartos command)

It was the insurgents’ leader František Slunečko, who, on the morning of 5 May 1945, evaluated the situation and issued an order for General Kutlvašr (prolink vinohradský byt generála Kutlvašra) to activate the Bartoš Command and take command in Prague, while Slunečko maintained command outside of the capital. The group successfully established cooperation with the Prague Transport Company, engaging about 1,000 of their employees.

In the final days of the war, František Slunečko stayed, among other places, in the flat of Major Theodor Pokorný at 6 Bendlova Street in Žižkov.