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The relatives of Czech paratroopers Jan Kubiš and Josef Valčík and their fellows, in total 254 people, were executed en masse on 24 October 1942 in Mauthausen concentration camp. Beneš—the leader of the Czechoslovak government-in-exile—and František Moravec —head of Czechoslovak military intelligence—organized and coordinated a ...
The First Czechoslovak Republic emerged from the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in October 1918. The new state consisted mostly of territories inhabited by Czechs and Slovaks, but also included areas containing majority populations of other nationalities, particularly Germans (22.95 %), who accounted for more citizens than the state's second state nation of the Slovaks, [1] Hungarians ...
The Ukrainian collaborationist forces were composed of an estimated number of 180,000 volunteers serving with units scattered all over Europe. [6] Russian émigrés and defectors from the Soviet Union formed the Russian Liberation Army or fought as Hilfswillige within German units of the Wehrmacht primarily on the Eastern Front. [7]
However, with the Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia, it was Sovietised [4] and in 1954 was formally renamed the Czechoslovak People's Army. The army of Czechoslovakia returned to its former name in 1990, following the Velvet Revolution , but in 1993, following the dissolution of Czechoslovakia , it was disbanded and split into the present ...
The eventual goal of the German state under Nazi leadership was to eradicate Czech nationality through assimilation, deportation, and extermination of the Czech intelligentsia; the intellectual elites and middle class made up a considerable number of the 200,000 people who passed through concentration camps and the 250,000 who died during ...
"Prague to Its Victorious Sons", a monument to the Czechoslovak Legions at Palacký Square. The Czechoslovak Legion (Czech: Československé legie; Slovak: Československé légie) were volunteer armed forces consisting predominantly of Czechs and Slovaks [1] fighting on the side of the Entente powers during World War I and the White Army during the Russian Civil War until November 1919.
Ranks in the SNB corresponded to equivalent levels in the Czechoslovak People's Army. [1] As of 1987 the SNB was a volunteer service, although conscription was apparently used to rebuild the force after the loss of personnel at the end of Alexander Dubček's leadership. [1]
Czechoslovak blue booklet cover from 1992. The Blue booklet (Czech: Modrá knížka, officially Průkaz o neschopnosti k vojenské činné službě (Document of proof of incapacity for military service) or formerly Průkaz o osvobození od vojenské povinnosti (Document of proof of exemption from military service) was a certificate of exemption from military service in Czechoslovakia and later ...