Aftermath
On 5 May, Emanuel Moravec committed suicide. Moravec was infamous among the Czechs as a traitor and as a collaborator with Nazi Germany. He was known as the "Czech Quisling."
On 14 May, Dr. Emil Hácha was arrested in Prague and transferred immediately to a prison hospital. Hácha was the State President of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, a 1939-created protectorate of the Greater German Empire. He died in prison on 26 June under mysterious circumstances.
In mid-May, the acting Mayor of Prague, Professor Josef Pfitzner, was hanged in public. Konrad Henlein, the leader of the Nazi Party of Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia, committed suicide at about the same time.
On 22 May 1946, SS Obergruppenführer Karl Hermann Frank was hanged after being convicted of war crimes.
Dr. Wilhelm Frick, a prominent Nazi official, was convicted of war crimes by the Nuremberg Tribunal and executed on 16 October 1946. Frick also had held the ceremonial post of Protector of Bohemia and Moravia.
SS-Fuehrer (Oberstgruppenführer) Kurt Daluege was captured by American troops and extradited to Czechoslovakia. He was convicted of war crimes by the Czechs, and hanged on 24 October 1946. Among other titles, Daluege was an officer of the Central Reich Security Office (RSHA) and the Governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
To honor the participants of the operation, the Soviet Union instituted the Medal "For the Liberation of Prague".
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