Small Fortress (Terezín)

During the war, the Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip, who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, was imprisoned here.

Unlike the Terezín Ghetto, where the Jews were imprisoned, the Small Fortress served as a prison for the political opponents of the Nazi German regime, Czech resistance members, some British POWs, and other people from the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, France, Italy etc.

[2] At the end of World War II, epidemic typhus erupted in the fortress and the nearby ghetto.

Czech epidemiologists Karel Raška and František Patočka arrived from Prague, and were leading measures to stop the spread of the epidemic in the fortress and the ghetto.

[3] Together they wrote a report describing the appalling conditions and mistreatment of German civilians incarcerated in the Small Fortress after the war ended.

[6] In the late 1960s, East Germany arrested Kurt Willi Wachholz [de], a former Small Fortress supervisor.

[7][8] In 2000, German officials also arrested Anton Malloth, a former Small Fortress supervisor who was nicknamed "The handsome Toni".