From 1939 - 1945 the building shown in this film served as the HQ for the Gestapo in Teschen. It was originally built in the nineteenth century and between the wars was a Czech language grammar school. The building is today located in Český Těšín in the Masaryk Gardens (Masarykový sady) very close to the border bridge in the centre of town.

One of the prisoners held here was Archduke Karl Albrecht of Austria who came from a German speaking landowning family and who chose to remain in Poland after WW1. After the Nazi occupation in 1939 he refused to sign the Volkliste and was imprisoned and tortured by the Gestapo. After the war, he had to flee once more, this time from the Communists and died in Sweden in 1951.

We can see the plaque on the wall which reminds people of its use by the Gestapo. The plaque was affixed to the wall in 1970 on the 25th anniversary of the building changing hands from the Nazis to the Communists.

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