War is a sod
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Former member of the Foreign Legion, Jaroslav Rajsigl, who made use of the amnesty in 1955 and returned back to the communist Czechoslovakia, was born in 1927, in Ježov, in the Kyjov region. He learnt the painter’s trade. He experienced the liberation of his native region by the Rumanian army and after the end of WWII, he began working in the Ústí region. He joined the Military Readiness Union, which sympathized with the National-Socialist Party. Fearing arrest for this reason, he therefore escaped to Austria in May 1945. In Vienna he joined the Foreign Legion, and he spent the years 1949-1954 serving in Indochina. After his return to Europe he worked in France and Germany for a short time, and in summer 1945 he returned to Czechoslovakia after an amnesty had been declared. The Secret Police tried to make him collaborate with them during this period, but he successfully resisted. For a brief time he was registered as a their collaborator, but he was never involved in any activities for the StB. In 1955 he tried to emigrate again, this time crossing the border over to Poland, where he spent several months. He was then arrested and deported to Czechoslovakia. He was given only a suspended sentence for illegal crossing of the border. For the past forty years he has been living in Kyjov again.
