Ladislav Malý

Ladislav Malý (born August 13, 1920 in Bátovce ; † July 3, 1951 in Bolíkovice ) was one of the main actors in the so-called Babice case , which, as a result of the killing of some communist functionaries on June 2, 1951 in the Babice municipality, became one of the most extensive show trials in of Czechoslovakia led.

Life

After studying at the grammar school in Moravské Budějovice and the military grammar school in Moravská Třebová, Malý volunteered for the army of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in 1940 , where he committed himself to 25 years of service. However, he was released in 1941. After the war he worked as a civil servant in small communities in Moravia.

Around April 1948, Malý fled to Austria, where he became interested in the Foreign Legion and, later in Bavaria, contacted the US intelligence service CIC , but in August 1948 he returned to Czechoslovakia. After twelve days, on August 17, 1949, he crossed the border to Austria again, where he visited the CIC intelligence service's department for Czechoslovakia. Here he was commissioned to pay out their reward to the escape helpers between Czechoslovakia and Austria. However, after Malý had embezzled more than 5000 schillings, he first went into hiding and appeared again in Czechoslovakia in February 1951.

The Babice case

Ladislav Malý played an essential and never fully clarified role in the so-called Babice case , which led to several show trials with 107 convicts. First, in the spring of 1951, he went to some earlier acquaintances, some of whom were later arrested, such as Father Jan Bula . On the evening of July 2, 1951, Malý and three other people attacked a meeting of the local national committee MNV in Babice in South Moravia. Three communist functionaries were shot dead in this attack.

Malý, who fled with his accomplices after the crime, was shot on July 3, 1951 while being arrested in a corn field near the Bolíkovice municipality. Despite much speculation, it is now assumed that he was neither an agent of the Czechoslovak State Security StB nor an agent of the US CIC.

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• Short biography of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes ÚSTR , online at: aplikace.mvcr.cz/archiv2008 ... , page 47, in Czech, accessed on March 5, 2012

Web links

• The Babice case, a German-language description of the events on the Czech Radio, online at: www.radio.cz/de/rubrik ... , accessed on March 4, 2012