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The case of murdered Michal Koch

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The case of Michal Koch, a young man who died in Nový Přerov under circumstances that have never been clarified, busied the Czechoslovak press for a couple of months. The main protagonists of this story were so-called partisans, wannabe heroes who exhibited their “heroism” by carrying out acts of intense brutality and violence against in particular uncomfortable persons in the first post-war months. Three “partisans” who came to introduce “order” in Nový Přerov are apparently responsible for Koch’s death. Michal Koch, the nephew of the murdered, recalls the event in the following way: “My uncle was 27 years old. He was a grammar school graduate and was dating some girl in Přerov. I think he worked for the Czech gendarmes while studying. These partisans came to Přerov and they were acting cool. They put a silver-plated gun to his picture of Virgin Mary. But there was a decree that all guns were supposed to be handed in. So they took him to the parsonage with his parents and imprisoned them there. The parsonage was right next to our house so we could see what they did to them there. My mom gave them food through a crack in the fence. They burned the finger nails of his mother and father with a candle. And he was tortured by them quite sadistically. He then couldn’t speak anymore as they cut out his tongue. They then showed him to my parents. My mother asked him: ‘Miho, what have you done to us’? And they found out that he couldn’t talk because they cut off his tongue. He was all beaten up, blue all over his body. Then they finished him off and hanged him on a handle. Then they took him on a wheel barrow to the cemetery.”

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Michal Koch

Michal Koch

Michal Koch was born in Nový Přerov in 1936. Most of the inhabitants of this south Moravian village were Moravian Croats, and Michal's native tongue was Croatian. His parents had six children, but two died as infants, and Michal was the eldest of the remaining siblings. After the country became annexed to the Reich, the compulsory conscription affected the Croats as well, and Michal's father had to join the army in 1944. He however joined the Italian partisans instead and he returned from the war with many decorations. After his return home he found out that his brother had been tortured to death by "partisans," who controlled the Moravia borderlands after the end of the war. Tomáš Koch advocated for the Croats to be allowed to stay in their homes, and he was arrested for that in 1948. His family was then forcibly displaced to Vojtíškov. At present Michal Koch lives in Hanušovice, and he still knows Croatian and actively uses this language.

Nový Přerov

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Nový Přerov (chorvatsky Nova Prerava) je jihomoravská obec, ležící v těsné blízkosti hranice s Rakouskem. Od 16. století do roku 1948 tvořili většinu místních obyvatel Chorvati. Na přelomu 40. a 50. let však byli prohlášeni za politicky nespolehlivé a násilně vystěhováni do moravského vnitrozemí.

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