English Translation

N Kaplan has been informed in detail of this matter by Zi z l a v s k y. When parachute agent P e c h a 1 had been lured to Brno by agents and officials of the local service after a five-week stay in the parish, K o s t i h a the sought C Only when after the attack on 4 Obergruppenführer H e y d r i c by the police in conjunction with the German Wehrmacht in the Steinitz area had carried out extensive patrols, did he persuade Z i z l a v s k y to remove himself for the sake of caution from the parish court and handed him word for several days. The priest was provided by the parachute agent and double murderer P e c h a 1 for lodging and feeding of 2.ooo.- K. Father K o s t i h a showed the outside world against a pious and completely unpolitical behaviour, in order to hide his hostile attitude towards the German Reich and the current political order in the protectorate on this weisé. The fanatical hatred of the pastor against the kingdom bears witness only to the fact that he without hesitation and forgetting all priestly duty, protected murderers and traitors from the access of the authorities. K o s t i h a undertook not only to familiarize itself, but also the cooperator and the cook of the vicarage with his criminal acts and to make them partly responsible for the favoring of the enemy by his influence. Another characteristic of the clergyman's attitude is the fact that he initially denied any connection with parachute agents and had to be moved only after convincing evidence to make a confession. Ko t i h a and Vo n e š were sentenced to death by the standing court of Brno at the meeting of 1 July 1942 and were held on the same day. Mnw Ma.