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	MBI Books: Panzer 35(t), Panzer 38(t), & Marder III
		The text is in both Czech and English and it covers the entire life of the tank, from its small beginnings in the Czech army to its German career.
		Czech tanks of the Second World War should be obscure vehicles, but since they were much better than their German counterparts they got a new breath of life in the Wehrmacht.
		Czech, German, and Romanian examples are depicted, as is a nice color rendering of the interior of the tank.
	www.internetmodeler.com /2000/april/new-releases/book_czech-tanks.htm

	Czechoslovakia_resistance
		As the Red Army advanced west and the German Army retreated, groups of Czech communist resistance fighters joined either the advancing Red Army to fight or joined Russian resistance fighters.
		Czechoslovakia's resistance movement, like others in Europe, was split between those loyal to Stalin and those loyal to their government in exile.
		In early 1940 it had made contact with elements of the resistance movement within Czechoslovakia and amalgamated the various units together into the Central Leadership of Resistance at Home (UVOD).
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /czechoslovakia_resistance.htm

	Occupation of Czechoslovakia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Czechoslovakia was liberated mostly by Soviet troops (the Red Army), supported by Czech and Slovak resistance, from the east to the west, only southwestern Bohemia was liberated by other Allied troops from the west.
		Czechs and Slovaks living in Carpatho-Ukraine and Ukrainians (Ruthenians) living in Czechoslovakia were given the choice of Czechoslovak or Soviet citizenship.
		In fairness to the Czechs, it should be acknowledged that some of the minority demands served as mere pretexts to justify intervention by Nazi Germany.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Occupation_of_Czechoslovakia

	1918
		In 1917, Masaryk carried out a campaign in Russia and the Ukraine, eventually putting together a 100,000 strong army of legionaries, whose numbers were further increased by soldiers from the prisoner of war camps and Czech deserters from the Habsburg army who had already fought on the side of the allies.
		The leading Czech political figure of the early 20th century was Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, professor of philosophy at Prague University, politician and founder of the Czech resistance movement against the Austro-Hungarian empire.
		Some believed that the Czechs should remain loyal to the empire, or at least stay passive, which they hoped would earn Bohemia great political recognition by the empire once the war was over.
	archiv.radio.cz /1918/english.html

	Czech Republic
		In 1945, the Red Army entered Czechoslovakia, and by 1948 Czech Communists had come to power in an "election" that is still debated by historians.
		Hasek describes a Czech soldier drafted into the Austrian army and the various ways he plays dumb in order to defy authority: e.g.
		Czech theater goes all the way back to medieval mystery plays, which were performed in village squares, with all the citizens participating.
	swellpic.com /pages/video_of/czech_rep.htm

	Axis History Forum :: View topic - Czhech crimes?
		The Czech workers at the factories were normal employees, and not conscripted labour; they continued to turn out weapons for the German army until the end of the war.
		At the same time he was utterly ruthless with saboteurs and resisters; for example he executed a number of Czech officials and senior Czech army officers who were plotting to subvert German rule.
		The Czech population was constantly living under the regime of terror with Heydrich the Reich protector of Bohemia and Moravia.
	forum.axishistory.com /viewtopic.php?t=31943

	Sunday Herald
		In the run-up to the 60th anniversary celebrations of the liberation of Prague from Nazi occupation, the Czech government is facing the daunting task of explaining that, actually, Prague was not freed by the Red Army, as history books authoritatively assert, but by a forgotten army of Russian quislings.
		But the Czech Resistance fighters battling on the streets of their capital were outgunned by the SS who were intent on destroying the city.
		The Czech emissaries pleaded with Vlasov that, as a fellow Slav, he should not to let the city be destroyed by the SS.
	www.sundayherald.com /print46234

	Military & History Trivia # 14 - www.ezboard.com
		Czech prisoners of war from the Autro-Hungarian Army and Czech separatists in serivce in the Imperial Russian Army was the base of one of the stronger white armies.
		During the C band who were onctivil War in Russia, large parts of Siberia were held by foreign troops, known as the "xxx Legion".
		During the Civil War in Russia, large parts of Siberia were held by foreign troops, known as the "xxx Legion".
	p090.ezboard.com /fjpspanzersfrm41.showMessage?topicID=62.topic (1705 words)

	The Avalon Project : Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Volume 17
		But this took place only in the crassest cases and only insofar as those Legionnaires had joined the Czech Legion voluntarily, that is, it did not apply to those who were members of the former Austro-Hungarian Army.
		It was composed partially of volunteers, partially of the balance of Czech regiments which had belonged to the old Austro-Hungarian Army and had become prisoners of war in Russia.
		VON LUDINGHAUSEN: The Czech report states further that you are to be blamed, or are to be made coresponsible, for the alleged confiscation of the Czech banks and industrial undertakings by the German economy.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/imt/proc/06-25-46.htm (20917 words)

	Army Ships -- Army Transportation Service (A.T.S.)
		Another interesting comment concerns the evacuation of the Czech Legion from Vladivostok by Army transports.
		Robert Faltin has a single page with interesting photos of the Czech Legion and a number of the ATS vessels involved in their evacuation.
		The text is simply "These images are part of a collection documenting the trans-Siberian trek of the Czech legion during the Russian Revolution.
	patriot.net /~eastlnd2/army-ats.htm (1797 words)

	SHP Article 31:3_3
		Also, the Hungarian Red Army had achieved military victories against the Czech in the north, contributed to the establishment of the Slovak Republic of the Councils, and was mobilizing to face the Rumanians moving into the Great Hungarian Plain.
		Hungarian and Austrian postage remnants, having lost their postal validity on 28 February 1919, were collected and overprinted by Czech postal authorities in Prague.
		The Hungarian Red Army attacked the Rumanians along the Tisza River on July 20th, but the front collapsed in the face of the Rumanian counterattack on July 24th.
	www.hungarianphilately.org /articles/article31_3_3.htm (1797 words)

	A Proud but Pensive Moment in Warsaw
		It is the only unit of the Czech army thus far that is fully integrated into NATO's rapid reaction forces.
		That was an important theme in the Polish press Friday, with the daily Zycie, or Life, running a long and depressing analysis of the poor discipline and drunkenness in the heavily conscript Polish army.
		Now 75, he was a captain in the Polish Home Army that fought alongside the Allies in World War II, then saw his family deported to Siberia by the victorious Soviet army.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/world/europe/031399nato-poland-scene.html (935 words)

	Conditions in Nazi Era Czechoslovakia
		With the Sudetenland annexation the Czech army, which had its main fortifications within the Sudeten area, was eliminated without a fight; its arms and ammunition were appropriated by the German army.
		In October 1939, the first Czech Jews were deported to concentration camps in Poland.
		By October 1942, seventy-five percent of Czechoslovakian Jews had been deported, most of them killed at Auschwitz.
	sorrel.humboldt.edu /~rescuers/book/Chlup/czechcon.html (355 words)

	Czech the News
		The Czech Republic considers the IPP the basis for cooperation with NATO, particularly in the military field, providing for the transformation of the Army of the Czech Republic and for increasing compatibility and interoperability of the Army of the Czech Republic with NATO.
		The Czech Republic considers maintaining of the political and military presence of the United States in Europe, along with the increased responsibility of Europe for the security of the continent, to be of a vital necessity.
		The decision is made by 30 economists and politicians from the Czech Republic and abroad as well as by the President of the University, the Chairman of the Foundation and the Chairman of the Karel Englis Society.
	www.mzv.cz /washington/newslet/ctn0195.htm (7062 words)

	Czechoslovak Legions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The basis for the troops was formed by Czech and Slovak war prisoners in Russia, Serbia and Italy, and Czech and Slovak emigrants in France and Russia who had already created the "Czech company" in Russia and the "Nazdar" troop in France in 1914.
		The Czecho-Slovak Legions, also called Czechoslovak Legions (Česko(-)slovenské legie or sometimes České legie in Czech, Česko(-)slovenské légie in Slovak) were Czech and Slovak volunteer armed forces fighting together with the Entente powers during World War I.
		After the Russian revolution the Bolshevik government concluded the separate Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and it was agreed between the Bolsheviks and the corps to evacuate the Czechs and Slovaks to France to join the Czechoslovak corps and continue fighting there.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Czech_Legion (828 words)

	Chapter 2
		The Czech Legion, which would eventually form the nucleus for the Czechoslovak Army, was created in World War I with the primary goal of eventually winning Czechoslovak independence.
		He promised the Czechs a separate Constitutional Assembly, a widening of the electorate, the reconstitution of the supreme offices of the Bohemian Kingdom in Prague, and the recognition of Czech as an official language of equal standing with German.
		Instead, the Czech Legion was to leave the Russian Republic, move completely across the Soviet Union through Siberia to Vladivostok, and then on to the United States and, eventually, to Western Europe to fight alongside the French.
	www.largers.org /czechhistory2.htm (13222 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Czech Legion
		The Czechs gathered their forces at Kiev and, commandeering trains left behind by a Russian army that was now in full flight, sought to escaped the German advance.
		At first the Legion's journey was fairly peaceful as the Czechs observed a policy of strict neutrality, negotiating safe passage with all factions in Russia's increasingly bitter civil war and avoiding conflict wherever possible.
		Rather than fight the Russians, the Czech conscripts surrendered to their Slav brothers by the thousand and were transported to POW camps in central Russia.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A4241062 (1956 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
		Vlasov was repulsed by the rapine of the SS and attacked the SS, routing them and preserving the Czechoslovakia Czech city.
		Vlasov and the rest of his forces, desperate to escape the revenge of the Red Army, attempted to head west to join with the Allies in the closing days of the war in Europe.
		Soviet authorities sent Vlasov and his men to Moscow, and in a summary trial held in the summer of 1946 sentenced him and eleven other senior officers from his army to death.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Andrey_Vlasov.html (1956 words)

	Scenarios for TOAW
		It was true that the Austrian army was the weaker of the two army but the Czar and Ewert hesitated: an attack on the Austrians alone might not cause the Germans to withdraw units from the western front and thus alleviate the pressure on the French.
		Additionally the Russian army needed a victory over the German rather than the Austrian army for political reasons and Ewert was unwilling to shift resources to Brusilev's front for Central Front had always been allotted the bulk of the resources sent to the front.
		The army was the backbone of the K.u.K Monarchie but much of its core professional army was wiped out in 1914 and mobilization in Austria was cumbersome and sluggish so that losses were replaced only slowly.
	www.fortunecity.co.uk /underworld/shoot/68/brusilov.htm (1956 words)

	Czech Legion
		The 100,000 strong Czech Legion responded by joining in the war against the Red Army.
		In May, 1918, a group of soldiers in the Czech Legion were falsely accused of killing a man in Chelyabinsk, in Siberia.
		The rest of the Czech unit marched into town and freed their comrades being held by local Red Guards.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /RUSczech.htm (280 words)

	AllRefer.com - Thomas Garrigue Masaryk (Czech And Slovak History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Traveling widely during the war years, Masaryk raised funds in the United States for the Czech cause, and in Russia he organized (1917–18) the Czech Legion, an independent Czech army composed largely of former prisoners of war.
		At the outbreak of World War I, Masaryk fled abroad and, with Eduard Benes, formed the Czechoslovak national council, which in 1918 was recognized by the Allies as the de facto government of Czechoslovakia.
		Known as the Realist party, it emphasized the economic and social foundations of political power and strove for Czech equality, suffrage, and autonomy; the protection of minorities; and the unity of Czechs and Slovaks.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/MasarykT.html (587 words)

	The Czech legion - Stormfront White Nationalist Community
		In January, 1918, Czechoslovakian legion commanders in Russia proclaimed, that this legion is a part of the Czechoslovakian army and is under command of the France.
		Czech Legion, their official military headquarters was established in Kiev, in the heart of the Czech emigre
		The Czechs, who were fighting for the independence of their people, fought as racial nationalists.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=95061 (6887 words)

	Polar Bear Expedition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		resurrecting the Eastern Front by defeating the Bolshevik Army with the assistance of the Czech Legion and an expanded anti-Bolshevik force drawn from the local citizenry.
		Thus they gave up their goal of linking up with the Czech Legion and settled in to hold their gains over the coming winter.
		Therefore, when the American troops arrived one month later, they were immediately used in offensive operations to effect the rescue of the Czech Legion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Polar_Bear_Expedition (1204 words)

	Milan Rastislav Stefánik
		Rifle Regiment was formed in that month. But it wasn't until the victory of Czech regiments at the Battle of Zborow in July 1917 that the Russians recognised the Legion as a viable and legitimate fighting force. In the summer of 1917, the Legion expanded to include the 4., 5., 6., 7., and 8.
		Czecho-Slovak force. As mentioned, the supreme commander of the Czecho-Slovak Legion was a French officer, General Janin. But in August 1918, Stefánik was named to command the Czecho-Slovak Legion in Russia. Although it was an independent front, he was still theoretically subordinate to Janin.
		Cavalry Regiments were formed and the Legion was a full-fledge army in Russia.
	www.geocities.com /veldes1/stefanik.html (558 words)

	Austrian Imperial Army
		The Army was officially under the control of the Commander-in-Chief, Emperor Franz Josef.
		This was reflected by the mass surrender in April 1915 of the Czech unit fighting against Russia on the Eastern Front.
		Attempts were made to rapidly expand the size of the army and recruitment posters in 15 different languages appeared all over the Empire.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWaustriaA.htm (822 words)

	Austrian Imperial Army
		The Army was officially under the control of the Commander-in-Chief, Emperor Franz Josef.
		Army morale was poor and nationalist resentment increased.
		This was reflected by the mass surrender in April 1915 of the Czech unit fighting against Russia on the Eastern Front.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWaustriaA.htm (822 words)

	Austrian Imperial Army
		The Army was officially under the control of the Commander-in-Chief, Emperor Franz Josef.
		Army morale was poor and nationalist resentment increased.
		This was reflected by the mass surrender in April 1915 of the Czech unit fighting against Russia on the Eastern Front.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWaustriaA.htm (822 words)

	Austrian Imperial Army
		The Army was officially under the control of the Commander-in-Chief, Emperor Franz Josef.
		Army morale was poor and nationalist resentment increased.
		This was reflected by the mass surrender in April 1915 of the Czech unit fighting against Russia on the Eastern Front.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWaustriaA.htm (822 words)

	english1.html
		When the war broke out, he was abroad, helping to organize the Czech resistance army which fought alongside the Allies.
		But Czech resistance to German occupation was mounting in the fall of 1939.
		On November 17th 1939, in Nazi-occupied Bohemia and Moravia, all Czech universities were closed, 9 students and intellectuals were executed, and over 1200 students were sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
	archiv.radio.cz /1989/17listopad/english1.html (822 words)

	war and social upheaval: World War II -- the Resistance
		The most notable achievement of the Czech resistance was the assasination of Reyhard Hydrich, "The Hangman" by Czech agents trained in Britain.
		The most notable action by the resistance was the Home Army's uprising in Warsaw when the Soviets neared the Vistula (1944).
		The Resistance was divided into two main groups, the sabotaging group and the communications group.
	histclo.hispeed.com /essay/war/ww2/res/res-cou.html (822 words)

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