Police Exhume Body of Former Czechoslovak Foreign Minister
Police will use modern forensic methods to clarify whether Masaryk’s 1948 death was suicide, accident or murder.
- Czech police began exhuming the remains of Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk on Wednesday at Olsany Cemetery in Prague, aiming to address speculation surrounding his death nearly 80 years ago.
- Masaryk was found dead on March 10, 1948, in the Foreign Ministry courtyard beneath his bathroom window after serving as the country's top diplomat during World War.
- At the time, the Interior Ministry claimed Masaryk committed suicide, though others speculated his death was an accident or that Soviet agents murdered the diplomat during the Cold War.
- The case has undergone multiple reviews since the 1989 Velvet Revolution, yet circumstances surrounding his death have remained a subject of intense speculation for decades.
- Police are examining the remains using "the most modern forensic methods," stating they "believe that today's actions will bring us closer to clarifying the circumstances leading to the death of Jan Masaryk.
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The Czech police announced Wednesday the exhumation of Jan Masaryk's earthly remains, former Czech minister of pro-Western foreign affairs, who died in suspicious circumstances shortly after the Communist coup of 1948. Jan Masaryk's body was found on March 10, 1948 under the window of his apartment in Prague, write AFP and Agerpres. Authorities ...
Czech authorities are exhuming the body of Jan Mazaryk, the former foreign minister of Czechoslovakia and a prominent supporter of the West. Jan Mazaric, son of Czechoslovakia's first president Thomas Mazaric, had served as foreign minister in the country's government-in-exile in London during World War II, a position he retained after the war. Characteristically, he refused to follow the mass resignations of non-communist ministers in February…
His body was found on March 10, 1948, under the window of his official apartment in Prague - Authorities at the time attributed his death to suicide, but doubts have persisted for decades.
Former Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk was found dead on March 10, 1948, in the courtyard of the Foreign Ministry in Czernin Palace, under the bathroom window on the second floor of his official residence at the height of the Cold War.
The Office for Documentation and Investigation of the Crimes of Communism, a specialized unit of the Czech police, has been investigating this case since last year on the assumption of a possible murder.
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