STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1643, sig. 109-4/1398

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120 - 8 - there is made available to the defendant Biskup and on his behalf assigned Zavazal to the recipients, who are again designated by Biskups, without a trademark. In this organization, the defendants Krejča and Exnar took part in smaller trades of their own initiative and on their own account.They took advantage of their position as road control posts and moved on to the purchased goods of life with a moderate profit to comrades. Among the current small customers of Kreja were the defendants Macoun and Jindra. Defendants Pavlik, Filka, Horak and Vaña-Semaka were not accused of an offence belonging to the jurisdiction of the Special Court. II. Personal circumstances of the accused. 1.) The defendant Biskup attended the trade academy after passing his maturation examination at the high secondary school in Königgrätz and then entered a knitwear factory in Chlumetz as an intern. In March l9l5 he came as a volunteer to the Inf. Reg.l8, was trained there and then first served on the Russian, later on the Italian front. After his promotion to the reserve lieutenant, he suffered two wounds (throughshots on the upper arm and in the Lönken Wade) and earned all of his war medals until the end of the war, including the EK II, the signum laudis with swords, the military service cross with sword, the Karl-Truppen-Kreuz and the small silver medal of bravery. After the war, he joined the gendarmerie on 1.7.199 as a lieutenant general. Subsequently, he led various gendarme commandos as a police officer. Since the year l928 he worked without interruption at the Landesgendarmereikommando in Prague. From 1934 to mid-194l he was adjutant of the state 86470