Czech WWII veteran Viktor Wellemín dies at 97

Viktor Wellemín, a Czech soldier who fought at Tobruk on the Western Front during WWII, has died at the age of 97, the Czech minister of defence, Lubomír Metnar, announced on Wednesday. Born into a Jewish family in Prague in 1923, he escaped to Palestine at the start of the war before later joining the exile Czechoslovak army. He also fought at Dunkirk in 1944, where he was lucky to survive after stepping on a mine.