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1945 World Students Day 17th November Prague Czech Congress Pin Badge

1945 World Students Day 17th November Prague Czech Congress Pin Badge

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  • A pretty 1945 silver coloured metal pin badge from the very first World Students Day.

  • The badge face is 1.9cm wide and has a long stick pin style fastener to the rear. The badge features the dates 1939 - 1945 joined by shackles and the date 17 XI


  • The date commemorates the anniversary of the 1939 Nazi storming of the University of Prague after demonstrations against the German occupation of Czechoslovakia and the killings of Jan Opletal and worker Václav Sedláček. The Nazis rounded up the students, murdered nine student leaders and sent over 1,200 students to concentration camps, mainly Sachsenhausen. They subsequently closed all Czech universities and colleges. By this time Czechoslovakia no longer existed, as it had been divided into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and the Slovak Republic under a fascist puppet government.[1]
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