STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1996, sig. 109-7/3

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Wehraddtocoanas 28 Roldisorotehtar in Böhga kp 54103/00 705 Prague, the 21.1o.40. Büvo do: Claotsfekcetärs b. Feichsprotector in Bohemia and mären. To Eing.: 23.OKT.1940 the Lord Reich Protector (e.g. State Secretary Frank) Tgb. Ne.: the office of the Imperial Protector (Ed. Envoy of Dr.Voelckers) Poofeg an b.22/0.40 Betr.: Verbehörungen czechischer Kriegsfanger. I. At the end of September, an English plane was shot down in Holland, whose inmates were captured by three Czech officers and three Czech non-commissioned officers. The prisoners' names are: Hptm. Karl l Trojácek, Lt. Zdenek Prochazka, LT. Wenzel l Kilian, Sergeant Ernst Z a b r a NCO. Franz K n o t e k II 11 Kumka. The latter committed suicide next to capture. The others are in the Oberursel air camp near Frankfurt/M. They will be heard by a defense officer of the Ast Prague. II. The investigations in the POW camps in the Reich have not yet been completed. Of a total of 166 camps, only 75 have answered the requested questionnaires. So far 83 Czech prisoners of war have been found. Of these 60 have already lived before 15.3.39 in France, Belgium or England, 16 have fled the Protectorate after 15.03.39, 7 have emigrated from Slovakia. According to ethnicity: 53 Czechs 26 Slovaks m 3 Germans 1 Jude. N.N.23M,40 All 1t