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Emil Hácha

1872–1945 · 20th century

Emil Hácha was a Czech lawyer who became President of Czechoslovakia after the Munich Agreement in 1938. Summoned to Berlin in March 1939, he was pressured into accepting German occupation, and he served as state president of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia under German control. Arrested after the war, he died in prison in Prague in 1945.

Emil Hácha
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Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia

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