Rudolf Beran

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Rudolf Beran (28 December 1887 – 23 April 1954) was a Czech politician who served as Prime Minister of the Second Czechoslovak Republic and Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia from 1938 to 1939. After World War II he was convicted for collaborating with Nazi Germany and died in prison.

Early life

Rudolf Beran was born in Pracejovice, Austria-Hungary, on 28 December 1887.Template:Sfn

Career

Beran was the leader of the Republican Party of Farmers and Peasants.Template:Sfn

President Emil Hácha appointed Beran as prime minister on 30 November 1938, and he formed his cabinet on 1 December. Beran dismissed his entire cabinet, except for two members, on 9 March 1939.Template:Sfn

On 14 December 1938, Beran stated that he would "solve the Jewish problem".Template:Sfn He proposed creating labor camps for Romani people and other groups on 6 February 1939, and the first labor camps were approved by his cabinet on 2 March.Template:Sfn

The country was occupied by Nazi Germany, which created the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.Template:Sfn Alois Eliáš succeeded Beran as prime minister on 28 April.Template:Sfn Beran was arrested in May 1941 by the Germans and spent years in various concentration camps. While he was in custody of the Gestapo in Prague, he had to answer several written questions submitted to him by K. H. Frank, Hitler's Staatsminister of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.[1]

Death and legacy

Beran was convicted for his collaboration with the NazisTemplate:Sfn and sentenced to twenty years in prison.Template:Sfn He died at the Leopoldov Prison on 24 April 1954.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn In 2022, the High Court in Prague reopened the case against Beran and Jan Syrový for review.Template:Sfn

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