169/1 Václavkova Street, Prague 6

Dejvice Station

The Dejvice Station building, the oldest one of its kind in Prague, was put into operation in 1830. It is noted in the history of the Prague Uprising due to the still insufficiently clarified circumstances surrounding the murder of a twenty-member group of insurgents.

During the initial hours of the battles in May 1945, the Bartoš and Alex resistance group commands (House of the stone table) concentrated on capturing buildings that could control logistics and communication with areas outside of Prague (Czech radio, Masaryk station, City telephone exchange at zizkov). As the insurgents faced a shortage of weapons and ammunition from the start, the first steps were also directed at seizing the military buildings, such as barracks, storage facilities, and infirmaries. This group necessarily included stations where military railway carriages were typically parked.

Shortly afterwards, the station building came under fire from the barracks at Kadetka (formerly known as Adolf Hitler Barracks). The counterattack led by Eduard Krüger ended around five o’clock in the afternoon with the capture of the station and the taking of sixty persons as hostages to the barracks. While women, children, and several men were released, the remaining unarmed individuals awaited their liberation during the evacuation of the entire building on 8 May.

Twenty men suspected of involvement in the armed fighting were executed, with no trace to date of what happened to their bodies. These murders are part of other massacres carried out by the Nazis during the Prague Uprising. (Masaryk station, Prazacka, Úsobská street, The Massacre in Lahovice, Deer moat)