What was the First World War like for Czechs?

The First World War

První světová válka

1914–1918. Czech men fought in the Austro-Hungarian army, many of them on the Italian and Eastern fronts, without much wish to die for the Habsburgs.

Where: Czechia

What happened

Czech men fought in the Austro-Hungarian army, many of them on the Italian and Eastern fronts, without much wish to die for the Habsburgs. About a hundred thousand of them — mostly prisoners of war, plus Czechs and Slovaks living abroad — formed the Czechoslovak Legions, which fought for the Allies in Russia, France and Italy. Their record helped convince the Allies to support an independent Czechoslovakia.

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Legionáři bojovali v Rusku, ve Francii a v Itálii.

The legionnaires fought in Russia, France and Italy.

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