A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2540, sig. 109-12/187

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5 Eing.: 2. SEP. 1940 In the dungeons of the Benesph regime. Igb==Ae. When in the August days of the year l9l4 the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy declared war on small Serbia, the enemy powers, which had been conjured up for a long time, lurked at this moment in order to fall over the hated opponent. But it was not only enemies from outside who had prepared and brought about the world fire in years of woeful work, but also internal political conspirators who, guided by megalomaniac panslavist ideas, shook at the rotten foundations of the multi-ethnic state. Among them was the university professor Masaryk and his faithful pupil Eduard Benesch. Even before the outbreak of World War II, Masaryk had meetings with leading figures from abroad, who aimed for the destruction of the Eastern Hungarian monarchy. Now, after the shootings in Sarajevo gave the impetus to active action, he left his homeland on December 4th in order to continue the decomposition propaganda abroad. The teacher was also followed by his pupil Eduard Benesch, who sneaked across the Bavarian border at Asch on September 1st,195, after in Prague, in front of the police, he had built up a conspiracy and spying organization, the notorious, the infamous "Maffia". While Benesch served as the self-appointed "Secretary-General" of the "Czechoslovak National Committee" in Prague, Masaryk served as leading diplomats, journalists and heads of state to convince them of the need to destroy the monarchy. The espionage reports, which were sent to him by his Czech compatriots in the "Maffia", easily gave him access to the individual countries. Meanwhile, in Russia, the prisoners and overflowing Czechs formed the legendary Czech legion. With this "Chechoslovak army", whose mission Masaryk and Benesh were constantly pushed out, the two knew how to operate skillfully in the following period. Imagine only once: an army which is predominantly