Overview of the Zivot a smrt generala Heliodora Piky typescript
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Title: Zivot a smrt generala Heliodora Piky typescript
Date: undated
Collection Number: 87057
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Czech
Physical Description:
1 item (2 manuscript boxes)
(0.8 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Relates to the career of General Heliodor Píka, Czechoslovak army officer, and chief of the Czechoslovak military mission
in the Soviet Union during World War II, who was executed in Czechoslovakia in 1949. Includes two separate drafts, one of
them a photocopy, prepared by supporters of Píka. Text includes copies of indictment, portions of the trial transcript, and
letters by Píka.
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Scope and Content of Collection
Relates to the career of General Heliodor Píka, Czechoslovak army officer, and chief of the Czechoslovak military mission
in the Soviet Union during World War II, who was executed in Czechoslovakia in 1949. Includes two separate drafts, one of
them a photocopy, prepared by supporters of Píka. Text includes copies of indictment, portions of the trial transcript, and
letters by Píka.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War, 1939-1945 -- Soviet Union
World War, 1939-1945 -- Diplomatic history
World War, 1939-1945 -- Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia -- Politics and government -- 1945-1992
Civil rights -- Czechoslovakia
Political purges -- Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia. Armáda
Píka, Heliodor, 1897-