Exhumation to be carried out on former minister's body after 78 years
Former Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk was found dead on 10 March 1948 in the courtyard of the Foreign Ministry at Czernin Palace, under the bathroom window on the second floor of his official residence at the height of the Cold War.
The body of Jan Masaryk, former Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister, is being exhumed from a cemetery in Lany, near Prague, as part of a renewed investigation into his mysterious death 78 years ago. Masaryk was found dead on March 10, 1948, at the Foreign Ministry on Czernin Palace, with circumstances surrounding his death remaining unclear.
The re-examination aims to shed light on his death, which some believe was a murder by Soviet agents, while others suspect it was a suicide or accident. New documents from diplomatic archives in France, the US, and the UK have prompted the reopening of the case.
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