I believe in God and my guns
Late in the afternoon of March 21, 1942, Václav Morávek was supposed to meet the double agent Paul Thümmel at the Střešovice tram depot. However, Václav Morávek sent his agent, Václav Řehák, to the place instead. Řehák was surrounded and arrested by the Gestapo agents. A few minutes later, Václav Morávek was killed at the nearby intersection of the present-day Svatovítská Street and Milady Horákové Street. The last moments of his life are described by historian Vilém Čermák by employing the autopsy protocol. According to his findings, on that fateful early evening Václav Morávek got off the tram at the Prašný most Bridge, where he either wanted to monitor the situation or help Řehák who was in imminent danger of being captured by the Gestapo. However, he ran into two members of the Gestapo. He managed to throw away his briefcase, where he kept compromising documents and money which should have enabled double agent Thümmel – who was pursued by the Gestapo – to go abroad. Then he opened fire at the Gestapo agents and they returned fire. In the course of the fierce firefight that followed, Morávek was hit several times. Even though he had been severely wounded, he continued to fire at his enemies. He fell on one of his knees and tried to stand up. At that moment, he was hit in the buttocks and fell on his right side. Finally, he succumbed to one of the last gunshot wounds that he had suffered. The autopsy report refutes the theory that the strongly religious Morávek committed suicide. The fatal injury was caused by a shot that pierced the aorta through the left hip – an injury that he couldn't have caused himself. The last two bullets to the head were shot by one of the Gestapo agents. At that point, however, Morávek was most likely already dead.
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- Antonín Šolc
2013-05-06 07:15:57 - Bylí i tací, kteří začli dříve než 5.5.1945 . Komu čest tomu čest !