Jan Šinágl angažovaný občan, nezávislý publicista

It turns out that Jan Bata was enemy No. 1 of the German National Socialists. It is also clear that the German regime wanted to stop Bata. But even the Germans couldn't stop Bata.

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I recommend a study:  Bata Foreign Office January 2011 + Foreign Office 21.10.1931 + German Intelligence Office DNB 19.7.1938 + Letter from Gerhard Keiper to John Nash 23.3.2011

First document - page 8

German Foreign Office memorandum of November 8, 1938 with attached memo explaining the reasons why the Nazi regime ordered the closing of all Bata's approximately 500 stores in the Sudetenland: "The reason for this order is the political stance taken by the Bata managing directorate during the political events leading to the handing over of the Sudetenland, and the conviction that the preservation of the extraordinarily networked system of Bata affiliates in the Sudeten-German region is not consistent from an economic-political standpoint with the principles of National Socialist governance of the economy.  The efforts of the Reich Commissar are directed to having Bata completely liquidate his affiliates and transfer them into other hands."

The granddaughter of Dominik Čipera, Tomáš Bat'a's closest associate, is one of the driving forces of the Czech-Czech community in Ottawa today. The Community Outreach and Library strives to make it more than just a meeting place for the language of the ancestors.

Michelle Chipera's family came to Canada in 1948. Her grandfather, Dominik Čipera, was a board member and director of the Bata Works in Zlín, mayor of Zlín, and a minister in the Beran and Elias governments.

As of this summer, exactly one hundred years have passed since the Czechoslovak businessman Tomáš Baťa expanded into the Netherlands. The ČT Events (September 8, 2021) brought a great report, although it was the third from the end of 34 reports. Just to clarify, the photo in the report does not show the father of Tomas Bata's son Tomík, but Jan Antonín Baťa, who took over the company and brought it to prosperity. He saved thousands of Jews during the war, yet they are still silent about this. The son of the founder, his uncle (his father's half-brother), was fraudulently deprived of the company after the war. Once the seventh largest enterprise in the world and the largest company in Czechoslovakia, it gradually began to decline and lost its importance under the leadership of Tomík.

The Czech Republic has not yet dealt with the descendants of the rightful owner of the company, Baťa, Jan Antonín Bata. They did not receive compensation for the illegally confiscated property of this successful businessman and a great patriot.