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author | Matěj Cepl <mcepl@cepl.eu> | 2016-12-29 23:58:00 +0100 |
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diff --git a/faith/the_few.rst b/faith/the_few.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5f24052 --- /dev/null +++ b/faith/the_few.rst @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +The Few +####### + +:date: 2015-09-10T19:46:00 +:category: faith +:tags: Czechoslovakia, RAF, Second World War, Slovakia, blogcomment + +On September 15, 2015 we are remembering the seventy-fifth anniversary of the `Battle of Britain Day`_ . George Weige wrote for The First Things a lovely remberance article_ about it, and I have added this comment: + +.. _`Battle of Britain Day`: + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain_Day +.. _article: + http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2015/09/remembering-the-few + +First, as a Czech, let me thank you for mentioning the +Czechoslovak airmen (not sure whether there were any women +involved at all). However, I have to admit you confused me a +little. You mentioned “Polish and Czech volunteers”. It is +technically incorrect. All of them were proud to fight what they +considered to be their country, which was Czechoslovakia (they +have it on their shoulder marks, although that could give them an +immediate death sentence if caught by Germans, because then they +wouldn’t be considered an enemy fighters, but traitors), and +they never recognized occupation of the Czech lands as legal (and +separation of Slovakia). + +Then I stopped myself thinking. “How many of them actually were +Slovaks? Slovakia was then semi-independent puppet state, so how +many of them deserted to Britain?” When looking at +http://cz-raf.hyperlink.cz/ I cannot distinguish their +nationality (and officially then their legal nationality was +Czechoslovak, which made Slovak patriots very unhappy), but at +least I can say that some of them had place of birth in what is +the current and then Slovakia. It would be interesting to know +more about the Slovak fighters in RAF (if there were any). + +Also, for the very good treatment of the whole history (and +perhaps even a bit of enlightenment for the American viewers) I +would strongly suggest the TV series “`Foyle’s war`_” . +Although a mystery stories series, I think it is one of better +descriptions of whole situations and context of the war (and the +son of the main hero of the show is a RAF fighter pilot). + +.. _`Foyle’s war`: + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foyle%27s_War |