Karel Pavlík (19 October 1900 in Hradové Střímelice – 26 January in 1943

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) was a

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captain ( posthumously promoted to colonel) and decorated hero of

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. Captain Pavlík was a commander of a company that resisted the

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. On 14 March 1939 when German troops invaded Czechoslovakia, Pavlík was the Officer Commanding of the 12th machine-gun company of the 8th Infantry Regiment housed in Czajánek's barracks in the town of Místek. After the battle, Pavlík was forced to surrender, and soon the rest of Czechoslovakia fell peacefully to the Germans. Pavlík joined a resistance group called ''Za Vlast'' ("For the country"), which helped Czechoslovak pilots flee to Allied nations. Then he moved to Prague where he joined another resistance group, ''

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'', and cooperated with

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. After the betrayal of Ladislav Vaněk in the group ''Jindra'', Pavlík was captured by the

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and imprisoned at

. After torture and questioning he was shot. His body was never found and his symbolic grave is in

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