Radola Gajda (1892–1948), a hero of the Czechoslovak Legion, was the leader of the only significant Czech fascist party in interwar Czechoslovakia. After initially becoming a general in the army of the new Czechoslovak state, he ran afoul of President T. G. Masaryk, Foreign Minister Edvard Beneš, and the Castle political faction they led. Because of Gajda's fascist sympathies and actual contacts with Czech fascists, the Castle drove him out of the Army in 1926 using very dubious methods. During the rest of the interwar period, Gajda tried unsuccessfully to make fascism a viable political force among the Czechs.

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What happened to him after the war, may I ask?


Incidently, Slovakia was a Fascist state during the war. Its leader was a priest by the name of Monsigner Tiso. Tiso was thought to be a stooge of the Nazis. He had little real popularity among Slovaks. The Slovaks fought with the Nazis in Russia but suffered terribly. Ironically, after the war many Slovaks became enthusiastic Communists. Communism was more popular in post war Slovakia than it was in the Czech regions. Tiso was hanged by the Russians after the war, without trial.

I would add also that during the war, Benes abdicated to go to England and left the government in the hands of a leader by the name of Muca. Not really a collaborator, Muca continued to rule occupied Boheimia-Moravia (as the Czech region was called) in spite of the fact that the real rule was by the German Reichsprotectors (Beginning with Heydrich, the most feared man in the Reich). He had tried in vain to soften the harshness of Nazi rule. After the war he was arrested for collaboration and put in prison where he died due to maltreatment in 1945.

I'm not really sure. He died in 48.. kind of a hard figure to find information on.