Ďábel je v detailu
The devil is in the detail

Summary/Abstract: Josef Kliment (1901–1978) was a lawyer, legal historian and public servant; in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, he was the political and press secretary of President Emil Hácha (1872–1945) from the autumn of 1941 till the spring of 1944, and then became the Chairman of the Supreme Administrative Court. He was arrested after the war and sentenced to life by the National Court in 1947. He was amnestied and released from prison in 1960. The reviewer focuses on the editor’s approach to Kliment’s work titled "With the sacrificed president". In his opinion, its publication (with subtitle "Bitter memoirs of Hácha’s secretary"; Prague: Academia, 2019) merits a commendation, and he also appreciates publisher Václav Velčovský’s introductory study, but he has substantial reservations about the latter’s editorial work. The reviewer believes the editor has chosen a non-standard approach, as he has marked only some of the frequent segments omitted from the extensive text and arbitrarily. Furthermore, the reviewer criticizes the fact the editor has not taken into account the oldest version of Kliment’s memoirs, which was written ten years earlier, while Kliment was still in prison. In the reviewer’s opinion, the publication’s index, which is incomplete and non-systematic, can not fulfil its role as well. These and other violations of editorial principles thus partly reduce the value of the important publication.

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