STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 594, sig. 109-4/341 Page 166 · 166 of 197
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 594, sig. 109-4/341
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144 319 850,514.3 D. 66 Vorgeng: Ide 1 20 Kad 8 P. Tn -2 - later, the situation is completely understated and from the vote of 1914 to 1918 there is no trace of these people. Ee is necessary to make himself aware that the Czech legions did not come from a resistance against the German people, but from the opposition to the Habsourg dynasty. It is well known that among the Czech Legionians, a number of German legions also came from, and only from, the same. The idea was guided like the Czech legionaries, nemlich by the memory of the resistance to the Austrian-Hungarian Monerchie, without them being able to survive any hostile against the German Reich. Many legionaries have been in the state service since 1918 due to full qualifications and many have gained vast advantages here. I know personally who have taken a positive view of the development of the nationel-socialist Germany already during the first republic, and have also publicly expressed this in word or in sophistication. A large group of legionaries rejected Dr Beneš's unhonored political activity, even many of those who were formally in crugaries syepatizing with Dr Benes had nothing in common with the policy he had adopted. On the other hand, it must be pointed out in Betrscht that the concept of legions to a certain extent coincides with the notion of Czech patriotism, so that