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+The Few
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+:date: 2015-09-10T19:46:00
+:category: faith
+:tags: Czechoslovakia, RAF, Second World War, Slovakia, disqus
+
+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 the RAF fighter pilot).
+
+.. _`Foyle’s war`:
+    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foyle%27s_War