Emanuel Moravec Quotes

Emanuel Moravec was a Czech army officer and writer who served as the collaborationist Minister of Education of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia between 1942 and 1945. He was also chair of the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth, a fascist youth organisation in the protectorate.

A veteran of World War I, Moravec served variously in the Austro-Hungarian Army, Czechoslovak Legion, and Russian-backed Serbian forces, then commanded an infantry battalion in the Czechoslovak Army during the interwar period. As a proponent of democracy during the 1930s, Moravec was outspoken in his warnings about the expansionist plans of Germany under Adolf Hitler and appealed for armed action rather than capitulation to German demands to the Sudetenland. In the aftermath of the German occupation of the rump Czechoslovakia, however, he became an enthusiastic collaborator, realigning his political worldview towards fascism. He committed suicide in the final days of World War II.

Unlike some officials of the short-lived protectorate government, Moravec's reputation did not survive his tenure in office and he has been widely derided as a "Czech Quisling".

✵ 17. April 1893 – 5. May 1945