Deaths in 2019: Joseph Hasil, Czech Border Guard Who Helped Freedom-Seekers

From the Nov. 24, 2019, Chicago Tribune by Graydon Megan.

1924-2019

Born in the Bohemian region what was Czechoslovakia, was a German conscript in Dresden during WW II and later part of an underground network that smuggled people out of the country when it was controlled by the Communists.

In postwar years he was officially a border guard for Czechoslovakia, but he worked secretly to smuggle those in danger from the communist regime across the Czech border into Germany.