Lo\u010f Praha putovala do\u00a0star\u00e9ho \u017eeleza kr\u00e1tce po\u00a0druh\u00e9 sv\u011btov\u00e9 v\u00e1lce. Jej\u00ed historie v\u0161ak do\u00a0\u0161rotu rozhodn\u011b nepat\u0159\u00ed. Plavidlo, kter\u00e9 na\u00a0konci dvac\u00e1t\u00fdch let ve\u00a0Velk\u00e9 Brit\u00e1nii pojmenovali po\u00a0hlavn\u00edm m\u011bst\u011b \u010ceskoslovenska, v\u00a0prosinci roku 1938 odvezlo do\u00a0bezpe\u010d\u00ed \u017eidovsk\u00e9 d\u011bti z\u00a0berl\u00ednsk\u00e9ho sirot\u010dince, na\u00a0za\u010d\u00e1tku \u010dervna 1940 evakuovalo z\u00a0francouzsk\u00e9ho p\u0159\u00edstavu Dunkerque ohro\u017een\u00e9 voj\u00e1ky a\u00a0o\u00a0\u010dty\u0159i roky pozd\u011bji, b\u011bhem vylod\u011bn\u00ed Spojenc\u016f, slou\u017eilo jako nemocni\u010dn\u00ed lo\u010f. Po\u00a0v\u00e1lce pak pom\u00e1hala s\u00a0repatriac\u00ed voj\u00e1k\u016f a\u00a0p\u0159e\u017eiv\u0161\u00edch. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Francouz\u0161t\u00ed voj\u00e1ci na\u00a0palub\u011b lodi Praha sledovali, jak za\u00a0sebou padaj\u00edc\u00ed messerschmitt nech\u00e1v\u00e1 ohnivou \u010d\u00e1ru. \u010cty\u0159i\u00adadvacetilet\u00fd pilot 222.\u00a0peruti RAF Sidney Baxter 1.\u00a0\u010dervna 1940 sest\u0159elil u\u00a0Dunkerku n\u011bmeckou st\u00edha\u010dku. \u201eMotor letadla Me Bf\u00a0110 se vz\u0148al, odl\u00e9tly kusy a\u00a0nep\u0159\u00edtel se z\u0159\u00edtil k\u00a0zemi,\u201c popsal v\u00a0hl\u00e1\u0161en\u00ed v\u00edt\u011bzn\u00fd vzdu\u0161n\u00fd souboj. V\u00a0leteck\u00e9 bitv\u011b o\u00a0Brit\u00e1nii, kter\u00e1 za\u010dala o\u00a0p\u011bt t\u00fddn\u016f pozd\u011bji, Sidney Baxter sest\u0159elil dal\u0161\u00ed n\u011bmeck\u00e9 letouny, 14. z\u00e1\u0159\u00ed 1940 ale jeho spitfire zas\u00e1hl Messerschmitt Bf 109 a\u00a0Sidney p\u0159i nouzov\u00e9m p\u0159ist\u00e1n\u00ed zahynul.<\/p>\n
Jeho jmenovec, t\u0159ia\u010dty\u0159icetilet\u00fd kapit\u00e1n parn\u00edku Praha, Clifford Rowland Baxter se 1. \u010dervna 1940 u\u00a0Dunkerku tak\u00e9 vyznamenal. Pro obkl\u00ed\u010den\u00e9 spojeneck\u00e9 voj\u00e1ky, kte\u0159\u00ed se soust\u0159edili na\u00a0pl\u00e1\u017ei a\u00a0v\u00a0p\u0159\u00edstavu, se v\u00a0r\u00e1mci rozs\u00e1hl\u00e9 z\u00e1chrann\u00e9 operace Dynamo vypravil t\u0159ikr\u00e1t, poprv\u00e9 28. kv\u011btna 1940. Stejn\u011b jako ostatn\u00ed kapit\u00e1ni na\u00a0velk\u00fdch i\u00a0mal\u00fdch plavidlech si strach nep\u0159ipou\u0161t\u011bl, bylo t\u0159eba dostat voj\u00e1ky do\u00a0bezpe\u010d\u00ed, aby je N\u011bmci nezajali. Ned\u00edval se p\u0159ed sebe do\u00a0vln, bedliv\u011b sledoval d\u011bn\u00ed na\u00a0nebi. N\u011bmeck\u00e9 t\u011b\u017ek\u00e9 st\u00edha\u010dky m\u011bly evakua\u010dn\u00ed lod\u011b za\u00a0sv\u016fj c\u00edl. Jedna se zam\u011b\u0159ila i\u00a0na\u00a0Prahu. Kapit\u00e1n Clifford Baxter \u00fahybn\u00fdm man\u00e9vrem zabr\u00e1nil nejhor\u0161\u00edmu. Jeho lo\u010f byla po\u0161kozen\u00e1, ale nedostala p\u0159\u00edm\u00fd z\u00e1sah, nepotopila se, francouzsk\u00e9 voj\u00e1ky z\u00a0jeho lodi p\u0159evzala ostatn\u00ed plavidla a\u00a0Praha doplula do\u00a0p\u0159\u00edstavu v\u00a0Dealu. Nebylo to poprv\u00e9 ani naposledy, co se lo\u010f Praha z\u00fa\u010dastnila z\u00e1chrann\u00e9 akce.<\/p>\n
St\u0159epy na\u00a0ulici<\/p>\n
Domov pro osi\u0159el\u00e9 \u017eidovsk\u00e9 d\u011bti v\u00a0Berl\u00edn\u011b zalo\u017eil v\u00a0roce 1833 mecen\u00e1\u0161 Baruch Auerbach. V\u00a0roce 1936 se v\u00a0tomto sirot\u010dinci ocitl dvan\u00e1ctilet\u00fd Walter Frankenstein. Kdy\u017e na\u00a0XI. letn\u00edch olympijsk\u00fdch hr\u00e1ch v\u00a0Berl\u00edn\u011b v\u00a0srpnu 1936 americk\u00fd \u00adatlet Jesse Owens z\u00edskal \u010dty\u0159i zlat\u00e9 medaile, Walter to se sv\u00fdmi kamar\u00e1dy pro\u017e\u00edval, jako by to Hitlerovi nat\u0159eli taky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lo\u010f Praha putovala do\u00a0star\u00e9ho \u017eeleza kr\u00e1tce po\u00a0druh\u00e9 sv\u011btov\u00e9 v\u00e1lce. Jej\u00ed historie v\u0161ak do\u00a0\u0161rotu rozhodn\u011b nepat\u0159\u00ed. Plavidlo, kter\u00e9 na\u00a0konci…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[2210,2110,26740,375,98,99,1732,9395,2285,26741],"class_list":["post-85354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-praha","tag-adolf-hitler","tag-anglie","tag-kristalova-noc","tag-nemecko","tag-prague","tag-praha","tag-spojene-kralovstvi","tag-synagoga","tag-viden","tag-walter-frankenstein"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@cz\/116572689744670073","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}