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RADOMÍR V. LUZA (New Orleans, U.S.A.) The Czech Resistance at Home: Thirty Years After In the early 1960s studies began to appear in Czechoslovakia that dis- covered the unexplored territory of the anti-Nazi Resistance. A group of talented young Czech historians, gathered in a newly founded "Czechoslovak Committee for the History of the Anti-Fascist Resistance," prepared to write a trilogy on the history of the Czechoslovak Resistance during World War II, a work which, in fact, never materialized beyond publication of an outline. 1 Independent research, and not dogmatic schemata, became the foundation of their studies. In a few significant books and in a great number of well- researched articles they told and retold a story of the Resistance that would otherwise have remained unknown.2 They helped remove the debris of vulgar presumptions, unscholarly guesswork, and facile indignation which had more to do with Party line than with past reality. Although their accounts still were treading a narrow line between complicity with political partisanship and the requirements of critical scholarship, they had almost completed their trans- formation from Party propagandists into scholarly investigators when the Husik leadership cut their careers short after April, 1969. The exacerbating impact of
East Central Europe – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1977
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