 He was offered freedom on the condition that he would serve as editor of a collaborationist "Přítomnost"; he refused and spent the whole of the war in Buchenwald.After liberation, Peroutka became an editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Svobodné noviny" and refounded his famous review, "Přítomnost", under the name "Dnešek" ("Today").The journal became prominent through its critical stance on postwar violence committed on the German minority and hundreds of alleged collaborators.