How Czech resistance to Nazi occupation ?
Czech resistance to Nazi occupation during World War II is a scarcely documented subject, by and large a result of little formal resistance and an effective German policy that deterred acts of resistance or annihilated organizations of resistance. In the early days of the war, the Czech population participated in boycotts of public transportation and there were sporadic calls for mass protest demonstrations. The resistance network that existed during the early years of the war was under the leadership of Czechoslovak president Edvard Beneš, who together with František Moravec (head of Czechoslovak military intelligence) coordinated resistance activity while in exile in London. In the context of German persecution, the major resistance groups consolidated its ranks under the Central Leadership of Home Resistance (Ústrední vedení odboje domácího, ÚVOD). It served as the principle clandestine intermediary between Beneš and the Protectorate, which was in existence through 1941. Its long-te
