Emanuel Moravec
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Emanuel Moravec (April 17, 1893, Prague - May 5, 1945) was a pre-war Czechoslovakian army officer (colonel) who became nazi collaborator during World War II.
Emanuel Moravec worked as a professor at the higher military school in the pre-war Czechoslovakia. After the Munich agreement he decided that the only hope for the peaceful life is to join the Third Reich. So he served as joint minister of Education and National Enlightenment in the puppet government of Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, which was reorganized by the Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich in January 1942. As propaganda minister he painstakingly persuaded the Czechs to be loyal to Nazi Germany. He is infamous among the Czechs as traitor and collaborator with Nazi Germany during occupation of Czechoslovakia. That is why he is also known as "Czech Quisling". At the end of the war he committed suicide as he was afraid of capital punishment for treason.
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