STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2607, sig. 109-12/255

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- 7 - 70 "Consul General" in Paris B a u e r - B l o c h, in a follow-up to bribe the investigating physician with l50.ooo frcs., in order to get rid of service in the legion, while the less financially sound Franz H e r m a n n, formerly director of a Romanian oil refinery in Pressburg could only hold 60,000 frcs for the same purpose. After all, even today in Great Britain, several Jews are likely to adorn the Czech legionnaire units, when a Jewish military clergyman from Karpathorußland announced a proclamation from London about the aether already before the year. The so-called commander-in-chief of the Czecho-Slovak foreign army General I n g r, considered it appropriate to offer his congratulations to the Czech-Jewish soldiers in the Far East for the Jewish New Year Day in 942. With regard to the relations of Czech emigration to the world Jewry and its role as stirrup for its imperialist interests, there are undoubtedly striking parallels between the time of the First World War and the present day. This external agreement alone makes it all too easy for certain Czech regions of the country to conclude falsely in two respects. On the one hand, even in the world war alliance between the foreign revolutionaries and Judaism, one does not want to see the proof of ideological agreement and original political conception, but merely the accidental result of a federal cooperative that develops through equal opposition only over the course of the war years and, at best, a unilateral friendly attitude of Judaism to the Czech cause, whose fertility had been politically exploited and, for the sake of achieving the desired success, a sign of diplomatic weakness by Benesch and Masaryk. However, this is contradicted by the shameful attempt of the post-war period to suppress the decisive Jewish aid in Czech translation literature. However, Masaryk himself has been the one who, although in the inexhaustible context of his memory book "The World Revolution", has admitted the true motives. It was Masaryk who already charged the Jewish world power at the time of the outbreak of war l9l4 and sought to mobilize for the Czech cause. Thus, under all circumstances, he sought the threat of anti-Semitic riots in Prague by acknowledging Jews that they may engage in personal restraint, and through - 8 -