Sedm válečných křížů - plukovník in memoriam Arnošt Steiner
Seven War Crosses Colonel in memoriam Arnošt Steiner

Summary/Abstract: Arnošt Steiner was a Czechoslovak army officer, who experienced the whole combat road from a small Ukrainian town of Buzuluk to Prague, capitol of Czechoslovakia. He was commander of machine gun platoon, later machine gun company. In the heat of combats, he displayed extreme courage. He became legendary namely in the Dukla Pass battle of 1944, surviving hopeless situations, generally regarded as mortal. He was awarded by seven Czechoslovak War Crosses of 1939, and was proposed to the Golden Star of the Hero of the USSR, but because of his refusal to join the Communist Party, this proposal was turned down. After the war, he became a head of local Defence Intelligence office, but he left the army even before the communist coup d’état in 1948, in the rank of staff captain. He avoided society and made his living as technician. He died in 1982 in Brno.

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