33 Facts About Emanuel Moravec

Emanuel Moravec was chair of the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth, a fascist youth organisation in the protectorate.

In World War I, Moravec served in the Austro-Hungarian Army, but following capture by the Russians he changed sides to join Russian-backed Serbian forces and then the Czechoslovak Legion, which went on to fight on the side of the White Army in the Russian Civil War.

Emanuel Moravec committed suicide in the final days of World War II.

Emanual Emanuel Moravec was born in Prague, the son of a modest merchant family originally from Kutna Hora.

Emanuel Moravec graduated from a vocational school and found employment as a clerk at a Prague company.

At the outbreak of World War I, Emanuel Moravec was conscripted into the Austro-Hungarian Army and dispatched with his unit to the Carpathian Front.

Emanuel Moravec was captured by the Imperial Russian Army in 1915 and held at a prisoner-of-war camp in Samarkand.

Emanuel Moravec was paroled and given command of a machine-gun platoon in the First Serbian Volunteer Division; a unit consisting of former prisoners of war, including Serbs and other Slavs from the countries of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, fighting on the Russian side.

In September 1916, following fierce action against Bulgarian forces along the Dobrudzha Front, Emanuel Moravec was hospitalized with shell shock.

Emanuel Moravec returned to a newly independent Czechoslovakia at the end of World War I with the legionary rank of captain.

Emanuel Moravec was accepted into Prague's War School and, upon graduation, commissioned as a major in the Czechoslovak Army.

Emanuel Moravec ultimately came to command the 1st Field Battalion of the 21st Infantry Regiment in Znojmo.

Simultaneous with his military career, Emanuel Moravec contributed to newspapers and magazines, including Lidove noviny, on political and military matters.

In 1931 Emanuel Moravec was appointed an instructor at the War School and promoted to colonel.

Emanuel Moravec called for Czechoslovakia to form an alliance with Poland and Italy against what he saw as a rising German threat.

Emanuel Moravec came to be seen as one of Czechoslovakia's leading geopolitical strategists and caught the attention of President Tomas Garrigue Masaryk.

Emanuel Moravec wrote the preface to a printed edition of one of Masaryk's addresses to the Czechoslovak Army.

When Masaryk died in 1935, Emanuel Moravec served as one of the pallbearers at his funeral.

In 1938 Emanuel Moravec warned that "if Czechoslovakia should fall, France would find herself politically on the European periphery".

Emanuel Moravec was particularly concerned that his earlier denunciations of Germany, and his reputation as a strident anti-German polemicist, might make him a target of the new regime.

Emanuel Moravec was surprised, therefore, when the new German authorities informed him he could resume writing books and newspaper columns.

Emanuel Moravec indicted Benes and the intelligentsia for Czechoslovakia's defeat and declared it was the unwillingness of the elite to confront Germany militarily that demonstrated democracy's moral decay, thereby ultimately justifying its termination:.

In 1941 Emanuel Moravec helped found the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth, a fascist youth group, and served as its chairman.

Unlike other protectorate ministries, the education ministry under Emanuel Moravec was given a measure of autonomy and not required to report to an overseer in the office of the Reich Protector.

Emanuel Moravec promoted the idea of Czech culture as a historic component of Germanic culture.

Emanuel Moravec reportedly offered the noted Czech journalist Ferdinand Peroutka release from Buchenwald concentration camp in exchange for accepting a position writing for the newspaper Lidove noviny, an offer Peroutka declined.

Emanuel Moravec publicly blamed Jews for pre-war tensions between the former Czechoslovakia and Germany.

Emanuel Moravec died four days before the liberation of Prague.

Emanuel Moravec was a Master Mason, a fact that earned him contempt from some in the pre-Protectorate Czech fascist community such as the Vlajka.

Emanuel Moravec's first wife, Helena Georgijevna Beka, whom he met while a prisoner of war in Samarkand, was a close relative of the prominent Bolshevik Alexei Rykov.

In 1942 Emanuel Moravec married Jolana Emmerova, his housemaid, who was only sixteen when their relationship caused the end of his previous marriage.

Czech historian Jiri Pernes has argued that if Emanuel Moravec had died before March 1939, he would have been remembered as a well-regarded Bohemian patriot; his pre-war record was sufficiently distinguished to earn him a place in history.

Emanuel Moravec was later criticized for the volume which, it was alleged, was heavily plagiarized from a doctoral dissertation on Moravec's life written by Josef Vytlacil.