STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1905, sig. 109-5/133 (damaged)

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15 Secret State Police Prague, 30 October 1941. State Police Department Prague Field Office Königgrätz B.Nr. 2309/41 - II BM 1 - For a stand-by verdict is proposed: Antonin P o k o r n y , pharmacist in the rank of a staff captain at the government force in Königgrätz, born on 9.12.1889 in Dolin, protectorate member, residing in Königgrätz, Rettiggasse l7, married, believen los, legionaire (86.l9l8 joined the Czech Legion in France). P o k o r n y, about whose anti-German attitude several times received reports, was arrested on 20.l0.l94l, when he was auseice in an unmistakeable provocative way in front of an H-leader in uniform, whom he met on the street. In his interrogation, P o k o r n y denied a pre-emptive intention and tried to talk heráus about it, so that he always did so out of habit. This admission is quite implausible. According to the local documents, P o k o r n y was constantly spitting out at meetings with Germans, who were known to him as such by living in his immediate surroundings. However, his anti-German attitude is also evident from the statements made by both German and Czech witnesses, according to which P o k o r n y has shown an absolutely anti- German attitude in every respect. the information of a former Czech officer is given by the clear chauvinistic attitude of the P o k o r n y , which has repeatedly been noticed by his irreconcilable hatred against all German even in Czech circles. In the search of the apartment of P o K o r y were found and ensured: 2