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3 to occupy the idea of a ferion for themselves, to establish a Jewish legionnaire group, and to also create a "friend circle of Jewish le- gionaires". Today, of course, this could be raised with far greater justification. The consistent information of prisoners of war of the new Czech units in Soviet Russia revealed the fact that about thirty percent of these new "legionaries" consist of Jews. But not only in Soviet-Russia! For example, on the first page, the Jewish Palestine Press launched a call from the so-called Czech Consul General in Jerusalem to all Czech-Slovak "citizens of Palestine and Transjordan, in which all armed forces between 18 and so years were called up for military medical examination and called to arms. The appeal referred explicitly to a decision of the then Czechoslovak National Committee in London and Paris concerning the mobilization of the Czech Jewry abroad. Of course, the practical war enthusiasm of the Checho Jews should not be particularly appreciated, similar to that of the First World War, where - as the Slovak rabbi Alexander Štern tells us in the "Slovenská Národná Jednota" of the 1st century AD. February 1923 - Individual members of the Parisian Czech colony, "in speciality Jews", bought themselves by donations from a physical participation in the war. Even with the marked appeal of 194o it may have been no different. For example, the Czech "Consul General" in Paris Bauer-Bloch understood how to bribe the investigating physician with 15odoo Franks in a follow-up to buy himself out of service in the Legion, while the less powerful Franz Herrmann, formerly director of a Romanian petroleum refinery in Bratislava, could only hold 6oooo Franks for the same purpose. After all, many Jews in Great Britain today are likely to adorn the Czech legionnaire feits, even if a Jewish military clergyman from Carpathorußland proclaimed a proclamation from London about the ether a year ago. The so-called commander-in-chief of the Czecho-Slovak foreign army, General Ingr, also considered it appropriate to offer his congratulations to the Czech-Jewish soldiers in the Far East on the Jewish New Year's Day 1942. As regards the relations of Czech emigration to the world Jewry and their role as stirrups 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 circles of the homeland to draw false conclusions in two ways. On the one hand, one does not want the proof of ideologia in the World War II alliance between the foreign revolutionaries and Judaism.