Abstrakt
Despite the topicality of the issue of Czechoslovak volunteers in the International Brigades, archival documents from the Czech archives are a testimony that not all Czechoslovakians who between 1936-1939 left for Spain fought there for the Republican faction. The paper analyzes motivations and destinies of several Czechoslovak volunteers, who decided to fight in the Spanish conflict for the Rebel group.
This article also focuses on the description of their journey to Spain and their lives in the Francoist army. In spite of few information about their lives after the war, the eight Czechoslovakians studied in this article, who decided during the Spanish Civil War to go to the Francoist zone, demonstrate the fact that in Czechoslovakia of the 1930s existed, apart from interbrigadistas, also people willing to go voluntarily fight for Franco.