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Česi i Srbi iz Banata i drugih austro-ugarskih zemalja u Srskoj dobrovoljačkoj diviziji na frontu u Dobrudži
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| Rok publikování | 2024 |
| Druh | Další prezentace na konferencích |
| Fakulta / Pracoviště MU | |
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| Popis | The fact that Czech soldiers and special officers participated in the combat actions of the first Serbian volunteer division on the front line in Dobruja is not well known in the Czech or Serbian public. The attachment speaks about this phenomenon. Serbian authorities tried to set up a refugee army in Russia. The army was to be formed from the ranks of captured Serbs from the Austro-Hungarian army. In this way, about 3,500 Serbs from Banat, Syrmium, Bačka and Bosnia-Herzegovina, captured on the eastern front, and several dozen Czechs were reportedly taken from Russia to Serbia by the Danube before the great offensive of the Central Powers. The remaining men, who could no longer be sent to the Serbian front along the Danube because of the Austro-Hungarian-German-Bulgarian attack on Serbia, were easily persuaded to gather in Odessa at the intervention of the representatives of the Serbian consulate in Odessa by Tsar Nicholas II, who was easily persuaded during his brief visit to the Black Sea port, where other interested prisoners, not only from among the South Slav captives, were then directed. This is how the 1st Serbian Volunteer Division began to emerge in Odessa in early 1916. Many captured Czechs, especially officers, who were not allowed by the Russian authorities to join the Czech military unit, which was very slowly being built up in Kiev, therefore decided to join the Serbian Volunteer Division, with which they then fought in Dobrudja against Bulgarian, German and Turkish troops. The volunteer division was mostly composed of men from Banat, whose platoons were often led by Czech officers. Later, in 1917 and early 1918, many Czech volunteers with the remaining units of the Serbian Volunteer Corps reached the Salonika front. Most of them, however, joined the Czechoslovak legions in Russia, where they held important positions. They later retained this position in the newly formed Czechoslovak Republic. The study is based on written memories of Czech officers and archival sources |
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