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Historical Museum – Dukla Palace (Muzeum Historyczne – Pałac w Dukli)

ul. Trakt Węgierski 5, Dukla, Podkarpackie

A late-Baroque palace with Soviet tanks parked in the garden, memorialising the largest mountain battle of the Second World War.

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Historical Museum – Dukla Palace (Muzeum Historyczne – Pałac w Dukli), ul. Trakt Węgierski 5, Dukla, Podkarpackie
Dukla Palace · wtorqy, public domain via Wikimedia Commons

The story

A late-Baroque Mniszech family palace of the second half of the 18th century, built on older foundations and badly damaged in the Second World War. The museum was created on 1 March 1972 as the Museum of Brotherhood in Arms, renamed in 1991, and its founding funded the palace's reconstruction. Its subject is the Dukla Pass about 20 km south — the low Carpathian crossing that has funnelled armies between Poland and Hungary for centuries. From 8 September to 28 October 1944 the Carpathian-Dukla Operation drove Soviet and Czechoslovak forces through it toward the Slovak National Uprising. Casualty estimates differ enormously: Czech sources give roughly 66,800 Soviet casualties and around 61,000 Axis, Russian estimates put Axis losses near 70,000, and the German historian Frieser gives about 131,000 Soviet. Czechoslovak losses were around 935 killed, 4,518 wounded and 756 missing. Roughly twenty pieces of armour and artillery stand in the courtyard. About 13 km west of Rymanów.

Everything that was here

Did you know?

Casualty figures for the battle vary by about a factor of two depending on the source.
Heirs of Stanisław Tarnowski recovered ownership in 2012, and the museum is now a tenant.
The nearby valley around Chyrowa, Iwla and Głojsce is still called the "Valley of Death."

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