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+ Secret State Police Secret July 23rd lBrünn, the 194 2 State Police Department Brno State Police Police Drag. Eidhornerstkaße 70 / telesprechte 19 988 B.-Nt.b III B 1 - K 627 - geht. *28. JULY 1942 SJp Secret! Please in the answer above business sign ote agatu un cn Fub KOBNG Tbt. Ttusm registered! rr To the bno. commander of the security police and El des,SD .deg. 426q MN llet mesetb ni doie e P zr isd ms Subject: Röm.kath. Pastori Vaclav K o s t i h a, geb. am mu,dsg 26.7.19oo zu Nechvalin, Steinitz No. 294 woknhaft. Procedure : Letter from 4-Obersturmbannführer G i e s to Stande Dartenführr Boehme dated 6 July 1942. hens avs .l.b baw The sent letter of 4-Obersturmbannführer G i e s to StandartenführER B o e h m e of 6.7.l942 back with pictures. I s The Roman priest of Steinitz, district Gaya, Vac- lav K o s t i h a, was for years close friends with the staff captain of the former Czechslov. Army Josef M ü l e r. from Gaya. Müller was formerly a Czech news officer and could only be exposed as an enemy against the German Reich after taking up connections with a V.-man appointed by him. At the end of March 1942, the English-Czech parachute agent Oldrich P e c h al, who was destined for Moravia but had been mistakenly deposed in Slovakia, had murdered two German customs officials after Moravia when crossing the Slovak border, and the teacher Cyrill Z i z l a v s k y, sought by the secret state police, had been kept hidden for several days by the school director Matthias U r b a n from Gaya in the death chamber of the cemetery in Gaya, and from there was further mediated by the Minister K o s t i h a in Steinitz because of food problems. The pastor immediately agreed to hide the two men in the church, or in the parish. However, the plan of the pastor to accommodate the men in that church had to fall - \C-26/42 Sessn