 In April and May 1941 respectively, Balabán and Mašín were arrested, but Morávek eluded capture for another ten months.He died in a gunfight with agents of Gestapo while he tried to help his colleague Václav Řehák, whom the Gestapo had arrested shortly before.On 8 May 2005, he was promoted to Brigadier General "in memoriam".