The protagonist had, among other things, denounced to the authorities a young man about to flee Czechoslovakia.

During the 1960s, he tried to help an oppressed family flee Communist Czechoslovakia.

His family fled Czechoslovakia in 1969, after his father was discovered to have committed embezzlement.

At 15, he fled Czechoslovakia, eventually joining the French Resistance.

Müller reported back to his office and found many were fleeing Czechoslovakia before the Gestapo could arrest them.

He had fled Czechoslovakia sometime after Hitler occupied the western part of the country in 1938.

However, with the advance of the Soviet Army in 1944, the brotherhood fled Czechoslovakia.

Yet despite his family's having fled Czechoslovakia when he was one and a half, a Mitteleuropean vestige does remain.