NĚMECKÉ STÁTNÍ MINISTERSTVO PRO ČECHY A MORAVU, PRAHA (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 213, sig. 110-4/59 Page 8 · 8 of 53
THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 213, sig. 110-4/59
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.6 - 7 stations. After his release from the internment camp, i.e. since autumn I942, Prince de Rohan has repeatedly listened to the news service of English stations on his radio, a total of about l2 to l5 times. He explains that he acted out of pure curiosity and had no particular interest. III. The facts found are based on the admissions of the defendants. While they are, in so far as they are competent, they dispute the distribution charged to them by the indictment, which is supposed to have been committed by the fact that the accused Count C z e r n i n and Count K i n s k y also had other persons in their homes listen to the foreign channels they have switched on. The accused Count C z e r n i n himself justified this suspicion by stating in his police interrogation that Count K i n s ky had listened to the foreign news service three or four times, while he had similarly often listened to Count Ki n s ky during his annual visits to Adlerkosseletz; also Prince de Rohan in 1940 and 1941 had visited him for three days, when the Prince was staying for a cure in the neighbouring Bad Podiebrad. The defendant, Count C z e r n i n, admits that he has given this information to the police officer, but states that he only tires and gives the statements incriminating him and the co-defendants by long interrogations. In this way, however, the defendant, Count Cz e r n n i n, cannot credibly evict his police confession, especially since he repeated this confession with slight deviations during his judicial interrogation on 25 February 1944. The deviations are that after the judicial confession Count K i n s k y only listened two or three times to Count C z e r n in and Count de Rohan in the years l940 and 194l each visited Count C z e n n n 'n' two or 3 times. Even if these deviations were readily accepted as memory defects