František Hájek ( Czech , November 30, 1886, Chertyn - March 15, 1962, Prague ) - professor of forensic medicine at Charles University in Prague. During the Second World War he participated in the work of the international medical commission ( German: Die internationale Aerztekommission ) in Katyn.
| Frantisek Gadget | |
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| Czech František hájek | |
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| Date of Birth | November 30, 1886 |
| Place of Birth | Chertyn |
| Date of death | March 15, 1962 (75 years old) |
| Place of death | Prague |
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The consequences of Katyn
After the war, from May 23 to June 9, 1945 [1] was arrested on suspicion of cooperation with the occupiers , but soon released. A month later, at a meeting of the Society of Czech Doctors in Prague on July 9, 1945, I read the report “Katyn Evidence”, which in April 1946 was published in the form of a brochure [2] .
The then Ministry of Internal Affairs of the protectorate gave me the order of the Nazi invaders to go to the Katyn Forest, indicating that if I do not go and refer to the disease (which I did), then my act will be considered as sabotage and at best I will be arrested and sent to a concentration camp . [3]
Frantisek Gajek is also known for witnessing the death from suicide of Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk [4] and the death from illness of a Czechoslovak legionnaire and military figure, Major General Karl Lucas . Currently, there are versions according to which they were killed [5] [6] .
Links
- ↑ Stehlík, Michal Protektorátní propaganda, zákulisí a osudy českých svědků (Czech) . Paměť a dějiny, ročník 4, č. 4/2010, ISSN: 1802-8241, s. 5-21. . Date of treatment May 27, 2011.
- ↑ Katyn evidence
- ↑ Statement by the Czechoslovak professor of forensic medicine F. Gaek regarding the so-called “Katyn case”
- ↑ Antonín Sum, Emanuel Vlček. Poselství Jana Masaryka // Vesmír. - 1994.- T. 73 , issue. 9 . - S. 490 .
- ↑ Major General Karel Lukas: The first victim of the Communist purges of 1948 . Radio Prague . Date of treatment May 20, 2010. Archived March 1, 2012.
- ↑ Investigation of the circumstances of the death of Jan Masaryk completed; the name of the killer is unknown . Radio Prague (01/06/2004). Date of treatment May 20, 2010. Archived March 1, 2012.
Literature
- Katyn evidence Prague, 1946
- M. Borák, “Zločin v Katyni a jeho české a slovenské souvislosti”, Evropa mezi Německem a Ruskem. Sborník prací k sedmdesátinám Jaroslava Valenty., Eds. M. Šesták a E. Voráček. Praha 2000, s. 505-522. Translation - Crime in Katyn and its Czech and Slovak context
- Czechs and Katyn . Radio Prague (04/18/2010). Date of treatment May 20, 2010. Archived March 1, 2012.