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

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13a - 10. - 5.) The defendant Branny had been deployed to the Russian front after the outbreak of World War II and had fallen into Russian captivity in July l9l6. He was allegedly not a legionnaire. 6.) The accused Vodiêka attended 6 classes of elementary school and 2 classes of civic school in Franzensdorf, and then worked for up to a year l9ll as an occasional worker and in the agriculture of his parents.In l9l he became an active soldier in a cavalry regiment.During the whole world crisis he was deployed on the front.He was once buried and once wounded at the lower leg.As a war award he received two silver Tápferkeitsnedaillen.When he was taken into Russian captivity in 1916 he escaped from Kiev and negated at the 4th German Kav.Reg. In this part of the German troops he remained until the end of the war, after the war he was taken over as a gendarmerie.Since 1936 he has been a permanent post commander in Marschowitz, 7.) The defendant Zavazal attended the elementary school until the year l906, then until l9lo the state real school in Pilsen.He does not own the Matura.After leaving school he learned the profession of merchant, then worked as a commercial employee in Klattau and was called to military service in 1916.After four-weekly infan- tic training he was transferred to artillery. In the years 19l7 and 19l8 he was employed on the Italian front. As war awards he received the Karl Troop Cross and the bronze bravery medal. After the end of the war he transferred as a cannon to the gendarmerie. Since 1 929 he has worked without interruption at the national gendarmes commando in Prague, where he works as a law clerk. 8.) The defendant Nêmejê attended 5 classes of elementary school, then until the year l930 the Realgymaium in Strako- nitz.After passing his maturation examination he satisfied his military duty in the Czech army.After leaving the military 86469