English Translation

Sch.Rommandoface. Annex l.) to Ic pol.60/40 g.Kdos. of 5.10.1940 98 Report on the Czech Legion in France. On 2.10.1939 the Czech envoy signed Dr. O s u s k ý on behalf of the "provisional government" an agreement between the French Government and the Czech interim government in France on the establishment of the 'Czechoslovak army' in France. Subsequently, on 1 July 1939, the general mobilization for Czechoslovac nationals in France and England was ordered. The Czechs, Jews and politically burdened members of other nations, who fled the Protectorate, were brought together from all anti-German countries in France. On 7.12 1g39, the first patterns of Czechs began in Paris. All Czechoslovak statesmen who had served in the Frahtösian Foreign Legion were assigned to the "Chechoslovak army" in France. All these people were concentrated in Agde (on the coast of southern France) in a camp. Transports of Czechs from Poland, who had taken their way over Romania, Yugoslavia, Italy, as well as transports of Jews from Palestine, were also arranged from England to Agde. In December 1939, the first Czechoslovakian division was set up under the General V i e s t (Slovake). At the beginning of the year l940 the division's distribution was about the following: the division staff, the staff compagnie and the division news team in Beziers,