Otakar Batlicka and His Journey through Paradise and Hell Cover Image

Otakar Batlička a jeho cesta rájem a peklem
Otakar Batlicka and His Journey through Paradise and Hell

Author(s): Jaroslav Čvančara
Subject(s): Fascism, Nazism and WW II
Published by: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů
Keywords: Otakar Batlicka; Mauthausen concentration camp; home resistance; Josef Jedlicka; Vladimir Krajina

Summary/Abstract: On Friday 13 February 1942, eleven Czech were murdered at the Mauthausen concentration camp, all of them close collaborators of the leaders of the home resistance, squadron leader RNDr. Josef Jedlicka and doc. Vladimir Krajina who, in 1939–1941, provided an agency radio link with Moscow and London. It was the very first mass execution of Czechs in Mauthausen. The victims also included the novelist Otakar Batlicka. The readers of his stories sought in vain answers to many questions.

  • Issue Year: XIII/2019
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 91-99
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Czech