French Foreign Legion

Veterans

Josef Liška - The Czechoslovak Brigade, 1945

Josef Liška

* 1924 †︎ 2013

Veteran of WW2, western front, French Foreign Legion, Wehrmacht soldier

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 2. 10. 1938 - Poland's annexation of Teschen area and 1 more anniversaries

Jiří Louda

Colonel (ret.) Jiří Louda

* 1920 †︎ 2015

Veteran of WW2, western front, French Foreign Legion, Participant in antifascist resistance, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), A cultural celebrity and 3 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 6 more anniversaries

1943 with code name Toman

Colonel (ret.) Vladimír Maděra

* 1917 †︎ 2013

Veteran of WW2, western front, French Foreign Legion, Participant in antifascist resistance, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Emigrant and 2 more categories

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1940 - The Battle of France, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 2 more anniversaries

Luisa Matlová (1946)

Luisa Matlová, roz. Štýrová

* 1916 †︎ 2020

French Foreign Legion, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Sanitary worker during the World War 2, Relatives of important personalities, Parašutisté vycvičení během druhé světové války ve Velké Británii and 2 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1940 - The Battle of France, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Vladimír Musílek as a legionnaire

Vladimír Musílek

* 1926 †︎ unknown

French Foreign Legion, A secret police collaborator, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Karel Mynář as a legionnaire

Karel Mynář

* 1930

French Foreign Legion, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Rudolf Němček in 1952

Rudolf Němček

* 1929

French Foreign Legion, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions)

Stanley Nova in the RAF

Stanley Nova, roz. Nováček

* 1922 †︎ 2013

Veteran of WW2, western front, French Foreign Legion, Royal Air Force, Wehrmacht soldier, Hidden people and 1 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Josef Otisk at the age of five, shortly after the war in 1945

Ing. Josef Otisk

* 1940

French Foreign Legion, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Ervín Páleš in 1956

Ervín Páleš

* 1929 †︎ 2010

French Foreign Legion, Sudeten Germans, The Partisan

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