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15 March 1939. Prague falls under German occupation, and Czechoslovakia ceases to exist. While many Czech airmen flee abroad to continue the fight, one pilot takes a darker path.
Augustin Přeučil joins exile forces and later the Royal Air Force (RAF) in Britain — the United Kingdom’s air force, where Czechoslovak pilots fight Nazi Germany. But he is secretly a Gestapo agent, gathering intelligence from within.
In 1941, he deserts during a training flight and lands in occupied territory, betraying civilians who try to help him — leading to their execution. He then continues working for the Gestapo, spying on resistance members and extracting information.
After the war, his true role is exposed. Arrested in Prague, he is tried for treason and espionage, and his reckoning comes in 1947.

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“Czech Pilot Who Betrayed the RAF for the Gestapo: Augustin Přeučil”

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00:00It was on the orders of the Gestapo that on the 18th of September 1941, during a training flight while
00:07instructing a student pilot in a second aircraft, he deserted by claiming problems with the aircraft and then diving sharply
00:15from a great high down to sea level, where he leveled off and flew over Belgium at low altitude, below
00:21German radar, a step intended to prevent the Germans from accidentally shooting him down as an approaching Allied aircraft on
00:28a combat mission.
00:30His flight was detected by a German anti-aircraft battery, located on the Belgian coast, and Przeucil then made an
00:37emergency landing in occupied Belgium.
00:40The locals tried to help him escape, but Przeucil took a step that should have been a warning to them.
00:46He did not try to escape from the Germans or destroy the plane. On the contrary, after the Germans arrived,
00:53he informed on the aforementioned locals that had tried to help him.
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