Three KingsPACNER, Karel. Československo ve zvláštních službách (1939-1945) díl II.. Praha: Themis, 2002. ISBN 80-7312-008-9. S. 35. ále jen Pacner. () was a Czech resistance group from 1939 to 1942. Its members were Josef Mašín (murdered by SS Einsatzgruppen on the orders of

Reinhard Heydrich Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich ( , ; 7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942) was a German high-ranking SS and police official during the Nazi era and a principal architect of the Holocaust. He held the rank of SS-. Many historians regard Heydrich ...

in 1942), Václav Morávek (killed in action in 1942), and Josef Balabán (executed in 1941). The group was established in 1939 when

Nazi Germany Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German Reich, German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a Totalit ...

annexed Czechoslovakia. Their most important task was upholding radio contact with František Moravec in Great Britain.

In popular culture

Seven part television series

Three Kings In Christianity, the Biblical Magi ( or ; singular: ), also known as the Three Wise Men, Three Kings, and Three Magi, are distinguished foreigners who visit Jesus after his birth, bearing gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh in homage to hi ...

was filmed and broadcast in 1998. The group appears in 2017 film The Man with the Iron Heart.

References

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