Notes From The Gallows
''Notes from the Gallows'' (also published as ''Report from the Gallows'') is a collection of notes written by the anti-Nazi, communist journalist, Julius Fučík (journalist), Julius Fučík, originally on pieces of cigarette paper, while imprisoned by the Gestapo in the Pankrác, Pankrac district of Prague in 1942. The book's Czech language, Czech title is ''Reportáž, psaná na oprátce'', literally ''Report Written on the Noose''. Content In April 1942, the Czech journalist Julius Fučík was arrested by the German Gestapo for his activities as an Anti-fascism, anti-Nazi activist of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. ''Notes from the Gallows'' is his account of his imprisonment in Prague, before he was moved to German prisons and executed by hanging in 1943 in Berlin. Fluctuating between testimony and self-reflection, the work deals dramatically and emotively with anti-Nazi resistance, interrogations, and the personalities of fellow inmates and prison guards. The auth ...
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Julius Fučík - Vezeňský Rukopis
The gens Julia (''gēns Iūlia'', ) was one of the most prominent patrician (ancient Rome), patrician families in ancient Rome. Members of the gens attained the highest dignities of the state in the earliest times of the Roman Republic, Republic. The first of the family to obtain the Roman consul, consulship was Gaius Julius Iulus (consul 489 BC), Gaius Julius Iulus in 489 BC. The gens is perhaps best known, however, for Julius Caesar, Gaius Julius Caesar, the Roman dictator, dictator and grand uncle of the emperor Augustus, through whom the name was passed to the so-called Julio-Claudian dynasty of the first century AD. The Julius became very common in Roman Empire, imperial times, as the descendants of persons enrolled as Roman citizenship, citizens under the early emperors began to make their mark in history.''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', vol. II, pp. 642, 643. Origin The Julii were of Alban people, Alban origin, mentioned as one of the leading ...
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