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9a - 6 - experts such as Oskar F e d e r or all the Jewish attachments of friends and wives such as the Financial Officer O u t r a t a and the Secretary of State for the Vote of Benesch's Grace Hubert R i p k a in the current emigrant camp or to detect the Semitic grandparents of the "Minister of Justice" Jaroslav St r a n s k ý Today no further details are to be anticipated for a later description. However, a short Hirweis seems to be appropriate to a little boastful chapter already today, when the Czech legionarian movement arose in Russia during the World War, there were only a handful of Jews - also here mostly on pressure positions - who entered into the Chechnya formations. In the past two decades, this group was always sufficient for Judaism to take care of the idea of legionaries, to set up a Jewish legionary group and, in addition, to create a "friend circle of Jewish legionsaries". Today, of course, this could be raised with far greater justification. The consistent data of prisoners of war of the new Czech units in Soviet Russia revealed the fact that about 30% of these new "legionaries" are from Jews.But not only in Soviet-Russia! Already on April 9, 1940 brought e.g. the Jewish Palestine press on the first page an appeal by the so-called Czech Consul-General in Je- rusalem to all Czech-Slovak "citizens" of Palestine and Transjordan, in which all those capable of weapons between the ages of 1 8 and 50 were called to military medical examination and called to arms. The call specifically referred to a decision of the then Czecho-Slovak National Committee in London and Paris concerning the general mobilisation of the Czecho Jews abroad. Of course, the practical war enthusiasm of the Czech Jews should not be particularly appreciated, similar to in the First World War, where - according to the Slovak rabbi Alexander Š t e r n in the "Slovenská Národná Jednota" of 1.2.1923V individual members of the Parisian Czech colony, "in speciality Jews", ransomed themselves by Serderdonations from a physical participation in the war events. Also with the marked call of 1940 it may have been no different. Thus it understood e.g. the Czech 3809 - 7 -