Jan Rys-Rozsévač (1 November 1901 – 27 June 1946) was a

Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...

n journalist and politician and leader of fascist organisation

Vlajka :''Vlajka means ''flag'' in Czech. You may be after flag of the Czech Republic.'' Český národně socialistický tábor — Vlajka (Czech National Socialist Camp — The Flag) was a small Czech fascist, antisemitic and nationalist movement. Vlaj ...

. Jan Rozsévač began to study medicine at a university but didn't finish his studies. In 1936 he joined

(in Czech ''the flag''), a nationalistic organisation founded in 1930. At the time he adopted the pen name Jan Rys. Under this name he published books "Židozednářství - metla lidstva" (''Jewish freemasonry - the scourge of humankind'', 1938) and "Hilsneriáda a TGM" (''

Hilsner Affair The Hilsner Affair (also known as the Hilsner Trial, Hilsner Case or Polná Affair) was a series of Anti-Semitism, anti-semitic trials following an accusation of blood libel against Jews, blood libel against Leopold Hilsner, a History of the Jews i ...

and

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Tomáš () is a Czech and Slovak given name, equivalent to the name Thomas. It may refer to: * Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850–1937), first President of Czechoslovakia * Tomáš Baťa (1876–1932), Czech footwear entrepreneur * Tomáš Berdych ( ...

'', 1939). After the

Munich Agreement The Munich Agreement ( cs, Mnichovská dohoda; sk, Mníchovská dohoda; german: Münchner Abkommen) was an agreement concluded at Munich on 30 September 1938, by Nazi Germany, Germany, the United Kingdom, French Third Republic, France, and Fa ...

in 1938, Vlajka was officially disbanded and Rys-Rozsévač imprisoned. He was released just before the rest of Czechoslovakia was occupied (15 March 1939) to become leader of Vlajka. Rys-Rozsévač attempted to establish a mass fascist organization and helped to move Vlajka from traditional anti-

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chauvinism to collaboration with

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s and

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. During 1939 - 1940 Vlajka organized mass meetings against politicians of the

First Republic of Czechoslovakia The First Czechoslovak Republic ( cs, První československá republika, sk, Prvá česko-slovenská republika), often colloquially referred to as the First Republic ( cs, První republika, Slovak: ''Prvá republika''), was the first Czechoslov ...

as represented by

Masaryk Masaryk is a Czech surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alice Masaryk (1879–1966), Czech sociologist and one of the founding members of the Czechoslovak Red Cross, the daughter of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk * Charlotte Garrigue Mas ...

and

Beneš Beneš (feminine Benešová) is a common Czech and Slovak surname. The surname was derived from the shortened Czech form of the given name Benedict (Latin name of meaning "blessed", see also the surname Benedict). In the old Czech orthography the ...

. The German occupational authorities nevertheless decided to support a group of collaborators around

Emanuel Moravec Emanuel Moravec (; 17 April 1893 – 5 May 1945) was a Czech army officer and writer who served as the collaborationist Minister of Education of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia between 1942 and 1945. He was also chair of the Board of T ...

, his political competitor. Because of constant

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attacks on Moravec, Vlajka was disbanded at the end of 1942 and the leaders, including Rys-Rozsévač, were sent as privileged prisoners into the

Dachau concentration camp , , commandant = List of commandants , known for = , location = Upper Bavaria, Southern Germany , built by = Germany , operated by = ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) , original use = Political prison , construction ...

and transferred to Tyrol at the end of the war, where he was liberated in early May 1945.Peter Koblank:
Die Befreiung der Sonder- und Sippenhäftlinge in Südtirol
', Online-Edition Mythos Elser 2006 After the war Rys-Rozsévač and three his coworkers (Josef Burda, Jaroslav Čermák and Otakar Polívka) were sentenced to death, and several others to were sentenced to long term imprisonment. Rys-Rozsévač was hanged in

Pankrác Prison Pankrác Prison, officially Prague Pankrác Remand Prison (''Vazební věznice Praha Pankrác'' in Czech language, Czech), is a prison in Prague, Czech Republic. A part of the Czech Prison Service, it is located southeast of Prague city centre in ...

in 1946.

References

Literature

* Milan Nakonečný: ''Vlajka'', 2001, . Republished as ''Český fašismus'' (''Czech fascism''), 2006, . Narrative description of Czech fascism and its reprezentants.

External links

Short biography
at

Kdo byl kdo ''Kdo byl kdo'' (in English, "Who was who") is the name of two major encyclopedic works in Czech, published as books, CD-ROMs and also available online. Their publisher is Libri. * ''Kdo byl kdo v našich dějinách ve 20. století'' ''(Who ...

(in Czech) {{DEFAULTSORT:Rys-Rozsevac, Jan 1901 births 1946 deaths Dachau concentration camp survivors People from Jičín District People from the Kingdom of Bohemia Vlajka politicians Executed politicians Executed Czechoslovak collaborators with Nazi Germany People executed by Czechoslovakia by hanging