THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 213, sig. 110-4/59

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II. The defendants are decency to have repeatedly listened to the correspondence of foreign radio stations, especially the English stations, on purpose. All of them are so powerful in English that they could easily follow the broadcasts given in English. The defendant Count C z e r n i n owns a radio with which he listened regularly to foreign, especially English channels even before the outbreak of war. He maintained this habit even after the outbreak. He was mainly interested in political broadcasts. At the time, which appeared to him as a highlight of the war, the frequency of listening increased. As highlights, the accused calls the case of Warsaw, the conquest of Singapore, the struggles for Stalingrad and the events in Italy, which preceded the Council of Badoglios. He has therefore listened to: to his foreign radio news. On the other hand, he does not want to be able to remember when he heard for the first time in the war. However, he leaves no doubt that the beginning coincides with the outbreak of war. The defendant, Count Kin s k y, with his radio, preferred to hear the English broadcaster Northern Regional, but sometimes also the Swiss broadcaster Beromünster, during the war for the first time during the course of the French campaign, at the time when ala the German breakthrough battles were in progress. The defendant pursued, he states, dicce developments as a former officer, who was also assigned rods, in particular under strategic face points, though he not only wanted to learn more facts about the foreign radio news service, but also to find out whether the opposite side recognized the meaning of the initiated dperations. In the aftermath he listened mainly to the foreign radio stations, if a military situation seemed particularly exciting to him. As a member of a military-occupied situation he calls the struggles in the Pacific Ocean. Last time he heard foreign stations at the time of the fights for Kiev. So he too has still foreign channels before his arrest.