The Death of Václav Morávek

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Description: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Mor%C3%A1vek

Descripcion foto: Václav Morávek was one of the best-known personalities of the Czech anti-nazi resistance and a member of the famous resistance group called the Three Kings. He was a pistol shooting champion of the Czechoslovak Army and commanded an Artillery battery in Olomouc with the rank of Staff Captain during the first Czechoslovak Republic. Once, when returning from Yugoslavia with explosives in his luggage, he was checked by a German policeman at Prague railway station - when asked, Morávek cold-bloodedly responded that "what may look like some explosives to you, are in fact ordinary sondes for centrifuges" and was let to go. The most visible sabotage operations carried out by the Three Kings were two bomb attacks in Berlin: one in January 1941 against the Ministry of Air Travel and police headquarters; and a second, in the Berlin-Anhalt rail station the next month, intended to kill Heinrich Himmler (whose train was unexpectedly delayed). He died in a gunfight with agents of the Gestapo in today's Morávkův park, while he tried to help his colleague Václav Řehák, whom the Gestapo had arrested shortly beforehand.

Website: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Vaclav.Moravek.%281904%E2%80%931942%29.gif

Completado?: Y

Fecha: 1942.03.21

Copyright: CZ: Autorem této fotografie je neznámá osoba. EN: Author of this photo is unknown person., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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