Národní soud, Praha

The fonds consists of the documents and files of 39 cases (including three cases of honour). Among the defendants, there were (next to the members of the Protectorate government and the state president) leaders of Vlajka (the Flag), of Liga proti Bolševismu (the League against Bolshevism), of Národní obec fašistická (National Fascist Community) at other social movements and Czech journalists participated on the Nazi propaganda. One of the economic leaders tried at the National Tribunal was Jan Antonín Baťa, the owner of Bata group. Jewish related documents in this fonds consists of the anti-Semitic propaganda of Nazi and Fascist organizations, such as anti- Semitic texts (articles, posters etc.), photographies of anti-semitic events being used as an evidence of defendant´s opinion (above all the case with the Vlajka leaders n. 7/46 and the case with journalists n. 6/47). The “national cleansing”, the prosecution of collaborators, Nazi war criminals and national traitors was one of the most important goals of the Czechoslovak government after the liberation. It was based on three presidential decrees – the Decree n. 16 (the Major Decree) which established the Extraordinary People´s Courts on the level of regional courts, the Decree n. 138 (the Minor Decree) which established the District Criminal Inquiring Commissions by the district offices and which should investigate even small crimes and offences against the “national honour”, and the Decree n. 17 which established the National Tribunal for the prominent war criminals on the national level such as the members of the Protectorate government, members of economic leadership, heads of national Nazi or Fascist organizations or journalists which participated on the propaganda.