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March 7 was the birthday of the man who created modern #Czechoslovakia and the one who nearly destroyed it
- President Liberator Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937)
- Nazi governor Reinhard Heydrich (1904; assassinated by Czechoslovak paratroopers, 1942)
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The contrast between T. G. Masaryk (born 7 March 1850) and Reinhard Heydrich (born 7 March 1904) could not be greater:
one, a builder and a humanist
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/declaration-of-common-aims.htm
the other, a destroyer and hangman
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/reinhard-heydrich-in-depth
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Here is a treasured large-scale portrait of President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk that from time to time graces my home office. It depicts him at work in the president's office in Prague Castle ("Hrad," as noted in the signature)
@CitizenWald
I asked myself when chzechs call it Hradcany ( GE: Hradschin) or just only Hrad ?
@enigma Hradčany in Czech
Hrad means castle
Hradčany:
https://www.muzeuminternetu.cz/offwebs/sunsite/63.htm
Germans germanized Hradčany to Hradschin
@enigma@norden.social@CitizenWald
got it, thanks. In simple english I also wondered why the german "Schloss" ( or Schlösschen) is different to palace ( Palast, Residenz) . It took me a glance to wikipedia lately to learn how englishmen used to use french 'chateau' instead of an own expression.