Current Affairs Jan Antonin Bata’s name cleared after sixty years

16-11-2007 15:20 | Daniela Lazarová

Jan Antonin Bata was a man of mixed fortune: a man of wealth and influence who stood at the head a shoe empire, but also a man forced to flee his homeland where he was labeled a Nazi collaborator and sentenced to 15 years in prison. But now, more than four decades after his death, the Czech judiciary has cleared his name.

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