The War Hero Exiled By His Own Country - František Fajtl
Lieutenant General František Fajtl was a Czech fighter pilot of World War II. Born on the 20th of August 1912, he was a British Royal Air Force (RAF) squadron and wing commander and led a group of Czechoslovak fighter pilots who formed an air regiment under Soviet Air Force command, supporting the Slovak National Uprising in 1944. Despite his hero status, like many Czech pilots who fought on the Western Front, Fajtl was harshly treated by the Communists after the war. He was thrown out of the army and sent to a labour camp, before later being forced to work as a labourer and clerk. He was dismissed from the Czechoslovak Air Force and was held in prison for a year and a half without a trial after the Communists came to power in 1948, and was only fully rehabilitated after the Velvet Revolution in 1989. He wrote many autobiographical books about his wartime experiences, and was an inspiration for the 2001 film Tmavomodrý svět (Dark Blue World).
Video Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
01:01 - The Boy From Donín
02:17 - Escaping the Protectorate
04:56 - The Fight for Freedom
06:42 - Foreign Spy
07:54 - A Life Well Celebrated
09:35 - Outro
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