STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2720, sig. 109-14/22

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6 - 2 - first lesson, he must teach Czech because he does not master the German language enough. In general, the German participants feel affected by skillfully applied speech styles of various Czech officers, who teach at the school or somehow appear through lectures. Major Biskup, commander of the Gendarmerie Supplement Division, gave a lecture in which he explained, among other things: "A bad guy is the one who spits in his own well". This statement was understood by the German students as if the former Czechoslovak Republic had made something of them, and that they would now take action against the Czechs. However, his statement could also refer to the Czechs who today profess Germanism. Major Biskup also said, "The present world war is a struggle of two great thoughts and in it we all mean nothing - he pointed to the listeners - at all."Major Biskups also introduced a German gendarmerie major on 20.1.1942 as a lecturer with a short speech, admonishing the pupils, among other things, to faithfulness to the kingdom. This admonition of a Czech gendarmerie officer seemed strange to the German pupils. It is remarkable that Biskup was performing a very mysterious activity in the ranks of the gendarme at the beginning of 1940. He ordered, among other things, field, march and start-up exercises of the Gendarme officers and had them practiced daily under the leadership of gendarmes officers. Among the pupils at the officer's school are the chief guards Šaroch from the gendarmerie post Jung-Bunzlau and Havel from the Gendarmiere post Tymokur. These are told that they were working at a Czech border guard at the Reich border in 1938. Allegedly they were arrested at the time and taken to the Reich, where they were supposed to have been imprisoned for a long time. Lately they would be sent to the Empire by German courts to be interrogated there as witnesses. Major Biskup allegedly expressed that Šaroch and Havelschöne positions would be preserved. About Šaroch it is already known that until the annexation of the Sudetenland to the Reich as active Czech gendarmerie in the area of Gossengrün, he acted in the sharpest form against Germanism.