The second section is dedicated to the Czechoslovak republic and its armed forces between the world wars, and the third section maps the period of the II. The first section is dedicated to the period of the I World War, the involvement of Czech and Slovak people in the war, and the political and military events that resulted in the constitution of the independent Czechoslovak Republic. The Army Museum is located in Prague-Žižkov, in the historic facilities of the National Liberation Monument. Vojenský historický ústav Praha: Armádní muzeum Žižkov, U Památníku, Žižkov, Praga-Praha 3, Češka republika

The museum contains military exhibits, militaries, documents, weapons and military equipment, vehicles, dioramas and the largest panoramic display of the battle. The long-running battles for a significant transit centre on the way to the Caucasus, rich with oil and gas stocks, were over after five months, a week, and three days. On February 2, 1943, tens of thousands of German and Romanian soldiers surrendered to the opposite side. In addition to the fighting, the soldiers of both sides, as well as civil people, how we're still in the city, were caught by famine.Īt the beginning of 1943, the Red Army offered capitulation to the German army, but it initially rejected it, also because of Hitler's strong opposition, and then accepted it on January 31st. Stalingrad became, in the winter of 1942/43, when the temperature dropped below - 30☌, a scene of many-month street battles between the two sides. At that time, the Red Army launched a large counteroffensive, causing the German army to remain trapped in the city. By mid-November, it managed to conquer 90 % of the city. With the help of Romanian military units, the German army launched an offensive on Stalingrad in late August 1942. The strategically and ideologically important industrial city of Stalingrad, which was named after the leader of the former Soviet Union, Josip Stalin, from 1925 to 1961, was completely destroyed in the battle and later almost completely rebuilt. It claimed from 1.7 to 2 million dead, wounded or trapped. The battle lasted from August 23, 1942, until February 2, 1943. It is considered the bloodiest battle in the history of warfare. Even nowadays Russians believe that the Battle of Stalingrad is the most important event of the World War II. The capitulation of German troops, led by General Friedrich Paulus, is considered to be the greatest defeat of Nazi Germany. In the battle, the Red Army, with the victory over Nazi Germany, achieved a turning point in World War II. The Museum displays the bloodiest battle in the history of warfare. The Battle of Stalingrad was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad, now called Volgograd. The museum-panorama 'The Battle of Stalingrad', Ulitsa Imeni Marshala V.i. Volgograd – Museum of the Battle of Stalingrad World War the Federal Republic of Germany re-implemented the eagle used by the Weimar Republic by an enactment of President Theodor Heuss in 1950. This two insignia can be distinguished as the Reichsadler looks to its right shoulder whereas the Parteiadler looks to its left shoulder. The Nazi Party had used a very similar symbol for itself, called the Parteiadler (“Party’s eagle”).

Despite its mediæval origin, the term “Reichsadler” in common English understanding is mostly associated with this specific Nazi era version.

During Nazi rule, a stylized eagle combined with the Nazi swastika was made the national emblem by order of Adolf Hitler in 1935. The Reichsadler was the heraldic eagle, derived from the Roman eagle standard, used by the Holy Roman Emperors and in modern coats of arms of Germany, including those of the Second German Empire (1871–1918), the Weimar Republic (1919–1933) and the “Third Reich” (Nazi Germany, 1933–1945).

Nazi eagle