English Translation

Go.Rommandofade. Annex l.) to Ic pol.60/40 g.Kdos. of 5.10.1940. T\ Report on the Czech Legion in France. On 2.l0.1939 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, the general mobilization for Czechoslovac nationals in France and England was ordered on 1 July 1939. 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 January 1939, the first designs of Czechs began in Paris. Aile techechoslovak statesmen who had served in the French Foreign Legion were divided into 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 through Romania, Yugoslavia and Italy, as well as transports of Jews from Palestine, were also carried out from England to Agde. In December l939 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,