The Story of the Man in the Photograph: Karel Novák, a Homeless Pickpocket in Prague, and His Imprisonment in Lety Cover Image

Příběh muže z fotografie: Karel Novák, pražský bezdomovec a zlodějíček vězněný v Letech
The Story of the Man in the Photograph: Karel Novák, a Homeless Pickpocket in Prague, and His Imprisonment in Lety

Author(s): Stanislav Kokoška
Subject(s): WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Fascism, Nazism and WW II
Published by: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů
Keywords: Karel Novák; homeless people;Protectorate Bohemia; represions;asocial elements;concentrations camps;

Summary/Abstract: While repression against people on the margins of society was part of interwar Czechoslovakia’s social policy, during the Protectorate the so-called anti-social element was first excluded from society and later physically eliminated.

  • Issue Year: XVI/2022
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 50-54
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Czech