STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 595, sig. 109-4/342

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157 -2 - Deputies K a l 1 i n a too much comes together, "Fred Oliver Barton, journalist from New York", so he is on the Kurlist. He seems to be in all the editorial offices of the city, offers smart reports, moves in quite national circles and keeps telling how beautiful it is in Karlovy Vary and, finally, that he will stay here longer e to send his American and English pages reports on the upright, national Germans of this area. Fred Oliver Barton has made a few small mistakes.He memorized a role that brought him trust, especially in the Nazi circles, but Mr. Barton doesn't have a fantasy. One day he founds a journalist's club in Karlovy Vary's Markbrunnviertel, which he first calls "'Boon' , but later " Hame bome Club". It is the critical time that puts its stamp on the dissolution of the Nazi party of the German camp. Barton, the journalist, suddenly has a hospitality concession and national personalities Karlovy Vary, whose trust he misuses, are glad to have found an Englishman on their side in these times and whose place is available to them for their consultations even in the dark hour. In November l939, the national parties have just been dissolved and the young SHF has founded its first local group in Karlovy Vary, one night the bomb bursts. From all sides the police arrive in the restaurant with gun guns, l6 people are arrested, first dragged to Bory and then to Pankraz. Fred Oliver Barton abandons his restaurant with many debts. The communists spread the rumor according to plan, Fred Oliver sat (i ). He remained gone. The random journey of a Karlovy Vary journalist to Pressburg shows that in the meantime Mistr Barton opened a parallel shop in Pressburg, that he - the man has really little imagination - calls "boat coffee Boon'". Egerland's fists drive him away. Fred Oliver Barton, whose true ancestry has now been established in Karlovy Vary, returns to Karlovie Vary in the critical period l938 as an alleged envoy of English and American German-friendly newspapers. He is obviously being shadowed by officials of the Czech political secret police, which proves that courage does not belong in the program of the son of the Jew from the Pilsner area. He searches with real Jewish impudence for his. old national friends back home, Stock and Stein swears that he is innocent, yes, he even calls on his Czech shading to prove his anti-state. Fred Oliver, as he called himself here, has no great success in Karlşbad any more. In a dark night, despite extensive Czech shading, he feels a few Egerlander paws under his nose, which he prefers to disappear for good. Mr. Barton is not an unknown personality to the Pressburgers. His ship affair at the beginning of the Slovak regime is known. Also his area of activity?