English Translation

- 2 - 27 according to their own information 18000 members. Among the members there were always legionaries and Jews, who still belong to the association today. Although the Jews are no longer listed in the personnel register, their names are known to the individual functionaries and are kept in evidence by them. A proof of the membership of Jews in "Cathedral Association of the Former Soldiers!" can be obtained by General Blaha, to whom a Jew named Klaber, former active officer, turned with the request wm admission to the Front Fighter's Association, pointing out that he already belongs to the "Comradional Association of Marriageal Sddates". Brigadier General Karel Heřman His person is controversial. Herman was a former Austrian officer and only became a Le gionär in the Russian captivity. During the Czechoslovak Republic he is said to have behaved hostilely to the German action night, Heřmann is apparently of the association, when for the Germans "portable" personality was put to the top. The actual owner of the association, however, was the captain of the staff Otokar Vaněk, who also created the association at the time. VaněK, who was arrested by the secret state police on 9.2.40, is a former Russian legionnaire and is considered an enemy of German. According to his ideological attitude, the association is clearly in the political line of the Masaryk/Benesh system, which is already conditioned by the tradition of the former Czechoslovak army. Since the former army was the main bearer of the anti-rich attitude of the Czech state, the basic political stance of the association naturally is anti-German. Some of the members of the Association have fled to hostile countries after the establishment of the Protectorate, among them the Colonel of the Kudlaček and Ma-jor Koutnik General Staff. Membership itself expresses its anti-German attitude through whisper-proganda and anti-rich aberrations, mainly at their meetings. - 3 -