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Editorial Invest in Slovakia
According to Dr. Vavro Šrobár, Jan Antonín Bata played a quite crucial role during the Slovak National Uprising. After the war, he testified in the matter before the national court.
After the war, Bata's factories were taken over by the communists. Czechoslovakia was still officially a democratic country at that time, but in Zlín the reins were already firmly in their hands. According to declassified US government documents, plans for the expropriation of the Bata works were set in motion during the war.
Evidence of Bata's collaborationism.
Jan Bata visited Germany after the outbreak of the war in 1939 and met with Marshal Goering. The British and Czech governments were unsuccessful in their efforts to get him to declare his allegiance to the Allies. Perhaps the most important evidence of a possible pro-Nazi mindset is the fact that when Bata left the United States, he went to Brazil and bought vast tracts of land from a German firm.
⚖️ Guilty vs. innocent.
On the eve of the verdict, the Czechoslovak press was already claiming that Jan Bata was guilty, but the court surprisingly acquitted him of all charges of collaboration. In the end, however, he was convicted of not openly supporting the Allies during the war. He was sentenced in absentia to 15 years of hard imprisonment and - most importantly - stripped of all his property!
He gave up his claim to the business.
The son of Tomáš Baťa the Elder, nicknamed Tomík, together with his mother Maria - Tomáš's widow, began to drag Jan Antonín through the courts. They questioned his leading position in Bata's already truncated empire. Jan Antonín could not prove in court that his brother had entrusted him with the management of the factories, because all the necessary documents remained in Zlín.
The end of a great man who stepped out of his brother's shadow.
In 1965, he dies in a Brazilian hospital. Allegedly, shortly before he died, he asked for paper and pen to write: "The truth will come out like oil on water." Not a word about his death appeared in the Czechoslovak press. In 2007, he was cleared on the third attempt. The court declared him innocent and wrongfully convicted in a rigged and purposeful trial.
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