The life stories of the gendarmes generals Otto Bláha a Josef Ježek were very similar. They both entered the Civil Guard during the Habsburg Monarchy, they both fought in the First World War in their ranks and after the fall of the Danubian Monarchy, they didn’t hesitate to join the services of the new Czechoslovak state. This study deals with their mutual and very tense relationship which during the twenties and the thirties resulted in Otto Bláha’s retirement. Josef Ježek, on the other hand, reached the top his Civil Guard career and became provincial commander. The German occupation provided new opportunities for both men. Bláha immediately contacted German authorities and was placed at the head of the Czech Union of Warriors, the newly-formed union of former soldiers from the front. Josef Ježek became Minister of the Interior in Eliáš’s government in 1939. Due to their activities for the Protectorate, they both ended up in front of the National Court after the war and were found guilty. Bláha was sentenced to death in January 1946, while a year later Ježek was set free.
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The Government Army of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia was established in July 1939 and formally put under the control of the State President Emil Hácha. At the time of the Second World War and especially German-Soviet war so-called Czech activists repeatedly tried to send it to the front on the German side. The most important attempt was made in January 1943 by the Minister of Education and Popular Enlightenment Emanuel Moravec. This Czech quisling abused the bad state of health of Dr Hácha and changed President’s attempt at an amnesty into the offer of the Government Army. The protectorate government did not dissociate itself from the offer for the fear of Moravec and left the decision to Hácha. The State President in a conversation with German State Secretary K. H. Frank at the beginning of February accompanied the offer with a number of comments that invalidated it entirely. Frank consulted this matter with H. H. Lammers, the head of the office of the Chancellor of the Reich, and they decided not to submit the worthless offer to Hitler.
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