English Translation

- 2 - Regims. In the days of March 1939 the Sokol was the headquarters for military education of the male youth. After the establishment of the Protectorate nothing changed in the mental attitude of the Socol; its goal was recognizable despite clever camouflage. Since the beginning of the war, the Protectorate has observed that in the Sokol Association and in its subdivisions, more and more of the elements gained the upper hand, which tried to promote resistance against the Empire in all areas.The events of the Socol often had a hostile tendency. On the occasion of the events in Yugoslavia, there were lively sympathies with the new leaders in Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav Sokol in a number of Sokolheims. Since the state police investigation found that the Sokol organization had become a pool of open and secret resistance against the empire, an activity of this association no longer seemed to be viable. The Reichsprotektor therefore asked the Protectorate Government to decide until further notice that the Sokol Association, its subdivisions and branch associations and the independent associations affiliated to it had ceased to exist.The Protectorate government complied with this request by decree of 12.4.41. Although the extraordinary activity of the Sokol in the Protectorate in recent times has not naturally been determined by the Ercignissen in the protectorate in the rest of the empire