The Germans had no idea the resistance had such weapons

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Jaromír Charvát was born in Příbram on 12 December 1953. His grandfather Rudolf Dvořák was born in 1888 and in May 1945 he went to fight on the barricades during the Prague Uprising. Together with 20 other people, he was arrested and taken to the Prague Castle’s Deer Ditch where they were all tortured and then shot. Jaromír’s father Bohumil Charvát began working for the Prague fire brigade during the war and he joined the resistance. In May 1945, he led a crew of firefighters who disarmed the Todt organization, seized the Klementinum and successfully defended it from the Germans. After the war, Bohumil Charvát went on disciplinary trial on charges of collaboration that eventually proved false. In the autumn of 1948, the State Security (StB) set up a trap for him to charge him. In the end, he was not sentenced to imprisonment but spent 20 years working in the uranium mines in Jáchymov and then in Příbram.