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Jan Smudek alias Karel Doubek
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| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Jan Smudek, also known as the "Elusive Jan", he shot the German police officer Wilhelm Kniest in Kladno in 1939 and in 1940 he was also the perpetrator of the shooting in Domažlice. He managed to escape from the Protectorate through Yugoslavia, the Middle East and France to Great Britain, where he served in the Royal Air Force under the code name Karel Doubek. After the war he returned to Czechoslovakia and in 1947 he was the victim of a provocation of intelligence services against him. Due to this event he was forced to emigrate again. He returned to Chodsko after the fall of the communist regime, where he died in seclusion in 1999. |
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