The National Committee and the gendarmerie: incorporation of the Austrian gendarmerie in the police corps of the new-born Czechoslovak state (1918-1920)
2012
Abstract
This paper deals with the process of incorporation of the Austrian gendarmerie in the police corps of the new-born Czechoslovak state. The first chapter shows the attitude of the local and district national committees to the gendarmerie units.
The next part refers to the relevant National Committee resolution to retain the gendarmerie in the services of the Czechoslovak state and points to the Committee's endeavor to rehabilitate the former Austrian gendarmes in the eyes of the public. In that connection many complaints about the anti-Czech conduct of gendarmes during the war had to be handled.