Ex-minister's body exhumed 78 years later for DNA test
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 investigation into the mysterious death of Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk 78 years ago has entered a new phase. Police in Prague have begun exhuming Masaryk's body from a cemetery in Lany, which will then be examined using modern forensic methods. Masaryk was found dead on March 10, 1948, at the Foreign Ministry in Czernin Palace, with circumstances surrounding his death remaining a mystery.
The exhumation follows the discovery of new documents in diplomatic archives in France, the US, and the UK. Masaryk was the son of Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, the founder and first president of Czechoslovakia.
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