Claim: During the fire of the Old Town Hall on April 8, 1945, a part of the Prague City Archives was destroyed; then after the end of the war the archives were housed in the Clam-Gallas Palace in the Old Town of Prague.
Evidence: During the fire of the Old Town Hall on 8 May 1945, a part of the archive was destroyed, but fortunately the majority of the historical documents were evacuated outside Prague.