Action D
Part of the evaluation report of the Ministry of the Interior of April 1949, concerning action D
PhDr. Ladislav Kudrna, Ph.D.
Part of the evaluation report of the Ministry of the Interior of April 1949, concerning action D
"I report that yesterday in the officers' mess I've been asked by an English Flight Lieutenant - how many Czechs are said to be flying in the Luftwaffe against the RAF? I told him of course no one, as far as I know! But he quoted me the story of a German plane shot down last year over Malta, whose pilot was a drunk Czech officer who was taken to an English canteen, saying that he would rather fly for Hitler than work in a factory!"
Report of Squadron Leader (S / Ldr - major) Vlastimil Veselý from April 20, 1943 to the Inspectorate of the Czechoslovak Air Force in London.
"Hunger forced us to beg for bread from the settlers, and on this occasion we learned from them that the Red Army had crossed the border on September 17 and was going to help Poland. We are all just scattered around the village when 28 Russian planes arrive at ground level. We do not know the situation, and when we see a red rocket fired from a plane, we know that a rage command has been given, perhaps the worst in my life. The planes bomb the village from low altitudes in all directions, this one is immediately in one sea of flames, stirred up by massive detonations of standing ammunition trucks. After the bombing, Russian planes occupy a different formation, the so-called 'wheel', and machine guns fire at every target in the village that still seems alive. After an hour of this furnace, where we can't see each other for smoke and a hundred dead and wounded, the planes take off and we get out of the village. Our last things were destroyed by flames, so I'm glad to meet Lt. Lenc, rtm. Fornůstek and des.Vyhnis. We are looking for our unit, but in vain. ” So were the words of Lt. Václav Kopecký, who later fell into Soviet captivity.
American professional athlete Rocky Bleier almost lost both legs in Vietnam. In a later interview, he had only one regret. No one ever told him what it was all about. Not at the training center, not in his platoon in Vietnam. "I wanted to know why I was going there," he said, "but I never found out."
On July 18, 1940, His Majesty's government and the then Soviet regime definitively recognized the Czechoslovak government in exile in London. For Edvard Beneš and his collaborators, this was a turning point in their long struggle for the restoration of the Czechoslovak Republic within the pre-Munich borders and in a free Europe, where there would be no place for the Nazi regime.
Maintenance of morale has become the most difficult problem facing the domestic authorities in Germany. Awareness of the full extent of the consequences of the air attack has spread to all parts of the country since the destruction of Hamburg, and the general attitude is that peace must be achieved at all costs and the destruction of other German cities prevented.
Royal Air Force Intelligence, November 1943
More women were killed in Edward Kennedy's car at Chappaquddick than in one Auschwitz gas chamber - David Irving, a publicist in the service of Nazi ideology.
Fight… kill! If it weren't for the Germans, there would be no Hitler! And therefore to declare a relentless struggle for all that is German and not to divide the Germans into state-forming and anti-state. There is and will not be a difference between the Germans.
Stanislav Fejfar, Diary of a Fighter, pp.68–69
Colonial Route 2 plunged into the jungle in the north and we spent the night on a small hill while the engineers put in order Colonial Route 2, dug by Viet Minh trenches. We learned that we were involved in Operation Lorraine. Pavel Knihař, veteran of the Foreign Legion and commander of the Order of the Legion of Honor
The main trial of a group of "treacherous" pilots from the West took place at the infamous State Court in Prague from the morning of February 9, 1949. It was nothing more than a constructed process with a group of div. gene. Karel Janoušek, in which, coincidentally, he found himself Capt. Otakar Černý, who, like the others, heard a harsh verdict that afternoon. He sentenced him to three years in a heavy prison, sharpened by a hard bed. Furthermore, the loss of honorary badges, decorations and the loss of honorary civil rights for three years.
Report of the infantry captain Oldřich Večerek from August 24, 1944 to the MNO in London.
The present war is an imperialist, unjust war, in which the bourgeoisie of all the belligerent states is equally to blame. In no country must the workers' party, much less the Communist Party, support this war. The bourgeoisie is not waging a war against fascism, as Chamberlain and the leaders of social democracy claim. It is a war between two groups of capitalist countries for world domination.
Klement Gottwald, September 8, 1939, Moscow
Captain Stanislav Fejfar was one of the best Czechoslovak fighters who served in the RAF. He died in an air battle on May 17, 1942 over northern France. His conqueror was a German ace, Captain Josef Priller.
Slovak airmen continued to escort German bombers to a depth of 60 to 90 km in Polish territory. On 17 September, they accompanied the attack of German airmen on Hluboczek Wielki, whose anti-aircraft defence was entrusted to Czech and Czechoslovak-oriented Slovak airmen who had left their own country. Thus, for the first but not the last time, Slovaks fought against Slovaks in World War II.
"After the sad March 15, 1939 and March 17, 1939, when our friends from Bohemia left us, I decided together with cpl. Hrala and cpl. Rehák that we will leave Slovakia in any way, because we have seen how tragic the mistake was made by the Slovak representatives who put themselves in the service of Hitler. "
Cpl. Ján Lazar, July 29, 1941
" And why the deputy, who has absolutely no work here, perhaps only the so-called representative, why does he receive 60 pounds in a few days? "Lieutenant Stanislav Fejfar, 310th Czechoslovak Fighter Squadron, Great Britain September 5, 1940
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