Persecution of Students and Professors at the Brno’s Faculty of Law after February 1948

In the introductory part, the authors claimed that the persecution of 1948-1950 had a number of common characteristics throughout all particular faculties (activities of action committees, administrative sanctions of professors, students, employees and even new alumni, criminal prosecution of some teachers). Aside from that there were certain dissimilarities (different speed and actions taken by action committees, liquidation of Brno’s law faculty). Next, the authors focused on the process of forming an action committee at the Brno’s faculty of law and organization of “purgatory action”. According to data of the action committee, there were about three-fifths of almost nine hundred students who passed the screening. This “screening” affected also Brno’s professors such as Václav Chytil, František Kop, Vladimír Kubeš, Bohumil Kučera, Zdeněk Neubauer, Adolf Procházka, Jaroslav Stránský, František Weyr and partially even Jiří Cvetler. There were criminal proceedings against professors A. Procházka and J. Stránský, who had emigrated, and against V. Kubeš for trying to leave the republic and against V. Chytil for alleged treason. The authors also briefly outlined the situation that was in Prague and Bratislava.