Svědek z cely smrti – Motl Stanislav (2010)

The book Witness from the Death Cell is something completely unique in the current Czech book market. The authentic story of the still-living Bořivoj Bartoníček, a student and member of the Czech-Třebová resistance group during the time of German Nazism, who spent more than a quarter of a year in complete isolation in a death cell, in close proximity to the execution guillotine (only to miraculously survive), helps the author - metaphorically speaking - to revive the thousands-strong army of men, women, and often still young boys and girls, including children, who fought under extraordinarily adverse conditions, right in the heart of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, against a much stronger and more powerful enemy. But who today knows about these often incredibly brave people? Who today knows that the number of our fallen on the home front significantly exceeds the number of fallen Czechoslovak soldiers, including airmen, on all fronts of World War II? And who today knows that many death sentences handed down by Nazi judges are still valid in the Federal Republic of Germany? The uniqueness of this book lies primarily in the fact that it also thoroughly addresses the organization of Nazi justice, the functioning of specific courts, and especially the individual judges and prosecutors who generally without...