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Babiš's Aunt Married a Member of the SS. Historians Described Her Fate

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A new historical study by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (ÚSTR) has revealed hitherto undescribed connections in the family story of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO). His uncle, the husband of his aunt Viola Babiš, Willibald Otto Erzen served in the SS and Gestapo, informs the Seznam News website. After the war, the couple emigrated to Canada. Babiš claims he never saw them and had no contact with this part of the family.
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Although the Slovak Ministry of the Interior agreed with Andrej Babiš after the government of Robert Fico took office that his name was unjustifiably included in the StB files, many historians see it differently. According to them, the Czech Prime Minister was a secret collaborator with the code name Bureš. As the Office for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes has now discovered, the Prime Minister's family was also involved in Nazism. Babiš's unc…

The most living member of the Gestapo from the former Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was supposed to be the uncle of Prime Minister Andreja Babiš (ANO), the server Seznam Zpravy wrote in a letter. Wilibald Otto Erzen měl po drugi světový vallce uprchnout do Kanady i se svou kou Viola, vyvá ze studie Ústavku pro studium totalitních rejimů. According to the Seznam Z, this is Viola Babišová, the aunt of the Czech Prime Minister. Babiš himself …

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A new historical study by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (ÚSTR) has revealed hitherto undescribed connections in the family story of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO). His uncle, the husband of his aunt Viola Babiš, Willibald Otto Erzen served in the SS and Gestapo, informs the Seznam News website. After the war, the couple emigrated to Canada. Babiš claims he never saw them and had no contact with this part of the family.

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A newly published study by historians from the Institute of History of the Slovak Republic touches on the family background of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš. The article about the longest-living member of the Gestapo from the territory of the former protectorate, who died in 2014, is the story of Babiš's uncle.

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seznamzpravy.cz broke the news on Tuesday, November 3, 2026.
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