Emanuel Moravec (April 17, 1893, Prague - May 5, 1945) was a Czechoslovakian army officer (colonel) and politician. April 17 is the 107th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (108th in leap years). ... 1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... May 5 is the 125th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (126th in leap years). ... Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... Warning: Value not specified for common_name Motto: Czech: Pravda vÃtÄ›zà (Truth prevails; 1918-1989) Latin: Veritas Vincit (Truth prevails; 1989-1992) Anthem: Kde domov můj and Nad Tatrou sa blýska Capital Prague Language(s) Czech, Slovak Government Republic President - 1918-1935 Tomáš Masaryk - 1989-1992 V...
Emanuel Moravec worked as a professor at the higher military school in the pre-war Czechoslovakia. After the Munich agreement and the surrender of the Czechs he decided, that the only hope for the peaceful life in to join the Third Reich. So he served as joint minister of Education and National Enlightenment (Propaganda) in the government of Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, which was reorganized by the Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich in January 1942. He is infamous among Czechs as symbol of collaboration with Nazi Germany during World War II. At the end of the war he committed suicide. Chamberlain holds the paper containing the resolution to commit to peaceful methods signed by both Hitler and himself on his return from Germany in September 1938. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... Flag of the Protectorate The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (in German: Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren, in Czech: Protektorát ÄŒechy a Morava) was the ethnic-Czech protectorate (in fact a puppet state) of the German Reich established in the central parts of Bohemia and Moravia. ... Reinhard Heydrich as SS-Gruppenführer. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead...
Moravec berated his countrymen: "I have spoken to the Czech people on the radio as a military retiree....
If, according to Moravec, it was their Švejk-like psyches that prevented the Czechs from finding their proper place in the Hitlerite "new Europe," some fifty years later the emigre scholar Peter Hrubý would condemn with equal conviction the very same Czech mindset for the ease with which the Czechs succumbed to the Communist yoke.
EmanuelMoravec, "Chvíle vyzrála do zoufalé osudovosti," in V hodině dvanácté: Soubor projevů státního presidenta a členů vlády Protektorátu Čechy a Morava po 27.
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