Jan G WienerWhile Jan Wiener was attached to Czechoslovak Number 311Bomber Squadron in Wales, he flew twenty-four missions overGermany, France, and Holland as a navigator. Since he spoke fluentGerman, he was frequently asked to act as interpreter for GeneralJose Bartik, one of the leading officers of the CzechoslovakIntelligence in Great Britain and chief organizer of the plot toassassinate Reinhard Heydrich.For a period of four months after the war, Wiener's squadron flewofficials and their families from London to Prague. In September1945, Mr. Wiener returned to Prague and found a position at theLanguage Institute teaching English. He remained at the institutefrom 1945 until 1948. By the time of the Communist coup d'etat in1948 he was head of the English department, but he refused to jointhe Communist Party.Consequently he was removed from his teaching position forinvolving himself in anti-state activities and for holding anti-peoples'attitudes. For more than three years he worked as a slag worker in theblast furnace at the Kladno steel mills near Prague. After Stalin'sdeath in 1953, he was sent to work as a lumberjack in the Bohemianforests.He was not allowed to return to the teaching profession until 1956, when he became an instructor in the language department of theResearch Institute for Technical High Schools in Prague. The Czechgovernment granted Mr. Wiener and his wife permission to visit theUnited States in 1965. He found a teaching position at the WindsorMountain School in Lenox, Massachusetts, where for many years hetaught modern European history and Sokol. Read More Read Less