STÁTNÍ ARCHIVNÍ ŠKOLA: CAUSA JAROSLAV PROKEŠ
THE STATE ARCHIVAL SCHOOL: THE CASE OF JAROSLAV PROKEŠ

Summary/Abstract: Jaroslav Prokeš (1895–1951) stood at the head of the Archives of Ministry of the Interior in the years 1934–1945 (during the war under German supervision) and was a director of the State Archival School in the years 1941–1942 (1945). After World War II he was accused from collaboration with the Germans by virtue of president´s decree. The accusation was imposed first of all due to Prokeš’s fiftieth birthday party in January 1945, where he invited German archival commissioner Swientek and other German co-workers. Some of the colleagues then accused him from too narrow contacts with the Germans installed during the war into some official posts. Although the accusation was not proved, Prokeš’s professional career finished. The post-war historiography turned its back upon him and proscribed him in the tendency spirit of the time. In the 1980s the situation gradually turned up. The contribution devotes special attention to Prokeš’s work at the State Archival School from its beginning until 1945, using sources from the fonds “the State Archival School” and “Jaroslav Prokeš”, both deposited in the Archives of Charles University, and comparing data from existing literature with these sources.

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