In those years he was repeatedly accused by communists of sympathizing with Nazis. Their proof were articles "Dynamický život" and "Hitler po lidské strance" (Hitler with a human face), that he didn't actually write. Peroutka refused those claims. Many years later in 2015, Czech president Miloš Zeman claimed that Peroutka was fascinated by Nazism and wrote an article called "Hitler je gentleman" (Hitler is gentleman). Although this was never proved Zeman refused to apologize and Ovčáček is still searching for that article