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

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? 8 should still remain, that the two co-defendants actually heard from the defendant Count C z e r n i n foreign radio stations. The defendant, Count C z e r n n, objected to the fact that he had been inwardly unviron- ed and had surprisingly led to the judicial interrogation for him; he had therefore considered it advisable to restore his police confession briefly and flushly. Even this objection cannot convince, The police interrogations of the accused Count Cze r n i n investigated on September 28 and October l943. He had asc truly enough time to prepare himself for a revocation before the hearing judge in case his police understanding contained an untrue self-assertion. In the main proceedings, Braf C z e r.- n i n also further interpreted his earlier confessions and sought to considerably limit the frequency of listening after the police confession "almost daily", after the judicial confession "fprtlaufende", if the court did not consider the defendant Count O z e n n n i s to have conveyed to the defendants Count K i n s k y and Prince de Rohan the transmissions of foreign channels, sc desjalb, because the admission of the accused Count K n s K y is contrary to the former confessions of the defendant count C z one r n n , . In contrast to the perplexed and at least unresolved manner in which Count C z er n i n entered, the frank and open confession of Count Kinsky stood: he confessed himself in full unscathedness to the explanations set out in the transcript of his judicial interrogation. He had already denied a joint interception in this judicial interrogation. In his police investigation on 13 December 1943 he had also denied that anyone with him had heard foreign radio news, but admitted that three or four times "in their places with various persines in the presence of two to three perscenes" foreign channels had been heard, this admission is nevertheless in the direction of the Confessions discussed by Count C e r n n a n . On the basis of the above, Mr Kin s k y stated that he was misunderstood on this point, which he further explained in such a way that he