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The first person to find the body lying in the stone courtyard of the Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry at 6:15 a.m. on March 10, 1948, was a janitor. Clothed in pajamas, the corpse was cold, lying face ...

Czech police are reopening the investigation into the 1948 death of Jan Masaryk, former foreign minister of Czechoslovakia, following the discovery of new diplomatic and intelligence documents.

One winter night in 1948, two weeks after the Communists had seized power in Czechoslovakia, Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk fell to his death from his third-floor apartment in the Cernín Palace. Despite ...

In the early hours of March 10, 1948, the body of Czechoslovakia’s foreign minister was found beneath a window of the ministry’s palace in Prague. The official explanation was suicide. The public ...