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Last week I went to the information centre of the village of Mala Upa in the Giant Mountains (Krkonose in Czech) at the border with Poland. There is a permanent miniexhibition commemorating the most tragical flying accident that has ever happened in the area.
In the early morning on February 23, 1945 a German Junkers Ju 52 transport aircraft crashed near Snezka, the highest point of the Czech Republic. Twenty-three (or twenty-four) of twenty-eight men on board (including crew members and wounded soldiers who were being carried out of the besieged Breslau to a hospital in the protectorate) were killed.
In September 1998 the remaining wrecks were eventually removed from the site and some of them placed in the information centre: one of three engines (photo No. 1), the oil tank (2) and a part of the wing with corrugated metal skin (3). Visitors can also see a dog tag belonging to one of the victims (4), the serial number tag and a copy of the Luftwaffe Loss Report (5) according to which the Junkers served in the 7th Staffel of the Transportgeschwader 3.
(No. 1)
(No. 2)
(No. 3)
(No. 4)
(No. 5)
