91-year-old Czech WWII Major General dies in Brazil

Josef Souček, a major-general who fought against the Nazis on the Western Front has died in Brazil, aged 91. Mr Souček was born in 1917 in Salzburg, Austria and moved to Czechoslovakia shortly after its founding a year later. In 1940, he fled to France, where he joined Czech forces in exile fighting against the Nazis, eventually moving to Britain and ending the war fighting in Dunkerque. Josef Souček was awarded for his gallantry after the war ended, although after the 1948 communist putsch, he emigrated to Britain before moving to Brazil. He was decorated numerous times for his service in Czechoslovakia, France, Britain and Brazil.