The article deals with the phenomenon of the Czechoslovak exile organizations during World War II. After the political defeat of the Czechoslovak republic in Munich in 1938 and the subsequent occupation of Bohemia and Moravia 1939 by the Nazi Germany formed general Lev Prchala, a strong opponent of the former Czechoslovak president Edvard Beneš, an independent exile organization in Poland. It moved its headquarters to Great Britain later and changed its name several times. In Prchala’s view, his organization should offer an alternative to the official exile movement, led by the politics who failed to defend the independent Czechoslovak state. The presented study aims to analyze how successful Prchala’s efforts were, especially at the time when the liberation of Czechoslovakia was becoming a reality. More concretely, if he was able to persuade the members of the British political and cultural life and what were his argumentative tactics. It should reveal who were his supporters on the British Isles and how did the reaction of the official Czechoslovak representatives look like.
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