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Observing demarcation treaties

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The Czechoslovak Combined Brigade was sent from the Dunkirk area on 23 April 1945 to be the first to enter its homeland side by side with the US Army as a symbolic representative of the Czechoslovak forces on the western front. Staff Captain Jiří Pujman (1904–1964) was appointed the deputy of brigade commander Lt Colonel Alois Sítek. The Combined Brigade’s way to the homeland was difficult not just because of the tenacity of the Wehrmacht but also due to complications resulting from agreements between the Allies. Alja Vlasáková, Jiří Pujman’s daughter, describes the difficulties of the Combined Brigade’s return in May 1945: “It all went awry somehow. The Brigade first made it to Cheb and then to Plzeň on 1 May, but they never made it past the nearby Kyšice. There were some demarcation line treaties that had to be observed. The Brigade was in Kyšice on 8 May, and father and Sítek left for Prague secretly in the evening. They spent one night at a playground in Cibulky in Prague 5 but then they were sent back due to the demarcation treaties.” Staff Captain Jiří Pujman welcomed our government in exile on returning home as the representative of the Czechoslovak western brigade at the Kbely airport on 10 May 1945. The Combined Brigade left Kyšice on 11 May 1945. The Combined Brigade’s stop on the way to freedom is commemorated by a memorial in the village.

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Alja Vlasáková

Alja Vlasáková

Dr Alja Vlasáková, née Pujmanová, was born in Prague on 29 May 1937. Her father Jiří Pujman worked as an insurance company clerk and her mother Marie Pujmanová was a graduated teacher. Both parents got involved in the resistance at the beginning of the war through military officers whom the father had befriended earlier during his military service. Jiří Pujman was a member of one of the groups within Obrana národa (Nation’s Defence) led by Major Sadílek. He was active primarily in Prague 7-Holešovice, printing and distributing the V boj periodical and coordinating the preparations for an anti-Nazi uprising. It was with a great deal of luck that he escaped arrest by the Gestapo in late May 1940, left the country and made it to the Middle East via the Balkans, joining General Karel Klapálek’s army. The Gestapo arrested and interrogated the mother; she was later released conditionally but then interned in Svatobořice between 1942 and 44. After father’s escape and mother’s arrest, Alja briefly lived with friends in Žíchovec near Prachatice from June 1940 and then at her grandma’s in Bavorov where she experienced the end of the war. Her father fought in Tobruk and Dunkirk. He was assigned to the Combined Brigade in April 1945 and returned to Prague with it one month later. Alja Vlasáková later graduated in medicine and worked as a paediatrician. She lives in Prague with her husband.

Kyšice

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The community of Kyšice has been part of the Plzeň-město district since 2007 but is not a Plzeň municipal district. At the end of World War II, Kyšice was one of the places liberated by the US Army. These days about 900 people live in the community.

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Observing demarcation treaties

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