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Václav Morávek (8 August 1904 – 21 March 1942) was a Czech military officer and war hero. He was one of the best-known personalities of the Czech anti-Nazi resistance and a member of the famous resistance group called the Three Kings.
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Václav Morávek (8 August 1904 – 21 March 1942) was a Czech military officer and war hero. He was one of the best-known personalities of the Czech anti-Nazi resistance and a member of the famous resistance group called the Three Kings.
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Life Václav Morávek was born on 8 August 1904 in Kolín. He was a pistol shooting champion of the Czechoslovak Army (his personal motto during World War II is widely known: "I believe in God and in my pistols"), and commanded an artillery battery in Olomouc with the rank of staff captain during the first Czechoslovak Republic. Demobilised after the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, he worked as a clerk at the Labour Office in Kolín. In summer 1939, he participated in the founding of the Obrana národa (lit. 'defense of the nation'), a resistance group made up of former Czechoslovak soldiers. Morávek was, together with Josef Mašín and Josef Balabán, a member of a group whose main tasks were keeping in contact with Paul Thümmel (considered to be the most important Czechoslovak agent within the Nazi apparatus; codename A-54), maintaining radio connections with the London-based Czechoslovak Government-in-exile and sabotage. The trio was later nicknamed Three Kings (in Czech Tři králové). Morávek was known for his foolhardy nature and daring actions. Among the most famous are his repeated personal colportage of illegal press to the Prague Gestapo office and his deliberate face-to-face meeting with Oskar Fleischer (who at that time headed…
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In popular culture He is the protagonist in the Czech TV series Three Kings, inspired by his anti-Nazi resistance group.