Editing Karel Čapek (section)

=== Late life and death ===
In 1935, he married actress [[Olga Scheinpflugová]], after a long acquaintance.<ref name="oregon" />{{sfn|Klíma|2001|pp=200–206}} In 1938, it became clear that the Western allies, namely [[French Third Republic|France]] and the [[United Kingdom]], would fail to fulfil the pre-war treaty agreements, and they [[Western betrayal|refused to defend]] Czechoslovakia against [[Nazi Germany]]. Although offered the chance to go to exile in England, Čapek refused to leave his country&nbsp;– even though the Nazi [[Gestapo]] had named him "public enemy number two".<ref name="mailbox">{{cite web |url=http://www.radio.cz/en/section/mailbox/mailbox-2012-03-03 |title=Radio Prague – Mailbox |publisher=Český rozhlas |date=3 March 2012 |access-date=19 July 2016 |archive-date=9 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170309234427/http://www.radio.cz/en/section/mailbox/mailbox-2012-03-03 |url-status=live }}</ref> While repairing flood damage to his family's summer house in [[Stará Huť]], he contracted a common cold.<ref name="pamatnik" /> As he had suffered all his life from [[spondyloarthritis]] and was also a heavy smoker, Karel Čapek died of [[pneumonia]], on 25 December 1938.<ref name="radio" />

Surprisingly, the Gestapo was not aware of his death. Several months later, just after the [[German occupation of Czechoslovakia|German invasion of Czechoslovakia]], Nazi agents came to the Čapek family house in Prague to arrest him.<ref name="ct24" /> Upon discovering that he had already been dead for some time, they arrested and interrogated his wife Olga. She was later released and lived until 1968; she died onstage of a heart attack while performing one of her husband's plays.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.spisovatele.cz/karel-capek |title=Olga Scheinpflugová |publisher=Osobnosti.cz |language=cs |access-date=20 July 2016 |archive-date=27 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027114753/https://www.spisovatele.cz/karel-capek |url-status=live }}</ref> His brother Josef was arrested in September and eventually died in the [[Bergen-Belsen concentration camp]] in April 1945.<ref>[[Adam Roberts (British writer)|Adam Roberts]], "Introduction", to  ''RUR & War with the Newts''. London, Gollancz, 2011, {{ISBN|0575099453}} (p. vi).</ref> Karel Čapek and his wife are buried at the [[Vyšehrad Cemetery]] in Prague. The inscription on the tombstone reads: "Here Josef Čapek, painter and poet, would have been buried. Grave far away."<ref name="mailbox" />