Jan Opletal
Czech university student killed during a 1939 anti-Nazi demonstration in Prague / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jan Opletal (31 December 1914/1 January 1915 ā 11 November 1939) was a student of the Medical Faculty of the Charles University in Prague, who was shot at a Czechoslovak Independence Day rally on 28 October 1939. He was severely injured at this anti-Nazi demonstration against the German occupation of Czechoslovakia and died two weeks later.
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Jan Opletal is seen as a symbolic figure of the Czech resistance against Nazism.[1]