RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Daníček (ed.), Patrik
T1 Publication of the Memories of Josef Mašín jr.
JF Historica Olomucensia
YR 2020
VO 58
IS 1
SP 101
OP 114
UL https://historica.upol.cz/artkey/hol-202001-0005.php
AB This article maps the life of a member of the Czechoslovak legions, the army of the first Czechoslovak republic as well as the anti-Nazi resistance, general in memoriam Josef Masin. The life of Josef Masin is not presented on an archive research or literature, but on the memories of his younger son, Josef Masin jr., and complements the memories of his sister, Zdena Mašínová jr.The time range of the memories of Josef Mašín jr. slightly touches the 1930s but is not limited by his father's death in 1942. It also describes the other half of World War II when Josef Masin jr. was in the anti-Nazi resistance with his brother as well as the aftermath of World War II.In Masin's opinion, the period after 1945 showed who the true friends of the Masin family actually were and who helped to make sure that the memory of their fallen father and his fallen comrades in arms remained.At the end, this article is enriched with his own memories of the time period after 1953, when Josef Masin jr., his brother Ctirad and their friend Milan shot their way to Western Berlin to become US soldiers and later, after they left the US army, unlike their sister Zdena, to become entrepreneurs and live in freedom.