Abstract
The author deals with spiritual care provided by religious communities for the benefit of the armed forces in the Czech lands from the overture to the First World War in 1913 until its liquidation by the Communist dictatorship in the autumn of 1950. He deals with the work of Czech and Slovak army chaplains in the army of Austria-Hungary and ministers in the Czechoslovak legions in Russia and Italy.
He deals in more detail with the position of chaplains in the army of the first Czechoslovak Republic. He describes the patriotic commitment of Czech and Slovak army chaplains at the time when Czechoslovakia was invaded by army of the Hungarian Communists in 1919.
He deals with the positive development of spiritual care in Czechoslovakia from 1918 to 1939 and increasing the number and improvement of the position of chaplains in the zechoslovak army, who belonged to Catholic, Evangelic and Czechoslovak Churches. He also does not forget the liquidation of spiritual care in Czech military units after the German occupation in 1939 and is devoted to the work of Czechoslovak military chaplains during World War II in the armies of the Western Allies of Czechoslovakia.
Finally, he describes the restoration of spiritual care in the Czechoslovak army in 1946, especially the active participation of President Edvard Beneš in this reconstruction. Finally, she recounts its gradual liquidation after the Communist coup of February 1948 and total destruction at the end of 1950.