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The monument to the Czechoslovak legionaries is located in Prabi a few minutes from the center of Arco. Monument cared by the Alpini of Arco. The monument is in the place where the death sentence was executed by hanging.
Beginning in 1917, a corps of Czechoslovak volunteers, deserters of the imperial army, was formed alongside the Italian army fighting the Austro-Hungarians on the Trentino front. In 1918 these turned into a real Czechoslovak army in Italy that also had a company in Trentino. On 21 September 1918, in an Austrian military action at Doss Alto, on the slopes of Mount Baldo, five Czechoslovak legionaries fell prisoner. Transferred to Ceniga the same night, they underwent a summary trial as traitors for desertion from the Austro-Hungarian army.
Four of them are hanged: their names are Antonin Jezek, Karel Novacek, Jiri Slegl and Vaclav Svoboda. This is not the only episode of Italian-Czechoslovak military collaboration: on July 5, 1918, Alois Storch, a Czechoslovak officer of the Austrian army who passed in the ranks of the Italian army and author of a sabotage action on the shores of the lake, was hanged in Riva del Garda.
The monument to the Czechoslovak legionaries is just a few minutes walk from the Sant’Apollinare church, church located on the street below, Via Paolina Caproni Maini.
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