Alois Kříž

Alois Kříž (born February 26, 1911 in Hamburg-Ottensen ; died March 26, 1947 in Prague ) was a Czechoslovak journalist .

Life

Alois Kříž studied at the Charles University in Prague and became a journalist. After the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in March 1939, he turned to the National Socialist ideology and worked as a journalist under the regime of the German occupiers and the Czech collaboration government . Kříž reported as editor of the Prager Zeitung Vlajka the western campaign in 1940. He took in September 1940 on the Propaganda travel of 38 Czech artists and journalists into the German Reich and in the occupied Netherlands , and reported in his book Krev za novou Evropu ( blood for the New Europe ) from his travel impressions. In 1941 his anti-Semitic book Co víte o Židech? ( What do you know about the Jews ? ). From 1941 he also worked for the Czech radio and from March 1942 headed its political commentary. For the radio he produced the series Co víte o Židech a zednářích? ( What do you know about the Jews and Freemasons ? )

Kříž was arrested at the end of the war. The accusation that the German SS fought with weapons in the Prague uprising on May 5, 1945 was dropped due to a lack of evidence. Because of his collaboration with the German occupying forces, he was sentenced to death by a Prague People's Court and executed in the Pankrác prison .

Fonts

• Krev za novou Evropu . Prague: Nákl. from left, 1940
• Co víte o Židech? . Prague: Orbis, 1941

literature

• Volker Mohn: Nazi cultural policy in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: concepts, practices, reactions . Essen: Klartext, 2014 ISBN 978-3-8375-1112-3 Zugl .: Düsseldorf, Univ., Diss., 2011

Web links

• Literature by and about Alois Kříž in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lukáš Kopecký: Případ rozhlasového novináře Aloise Kříže před Národním soudem , Abstract in English at Masaryk University (MUNI)