STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1998, sig. 109-7/5

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Prague, 11.1.1941! edabshnitt Drag Subject: I e g i o nar s for a g 475 13. JAN. 1941 Procedure:Without buitees fktensaichen Z 20 f reported. The former Austrian Knightmaster and later captain of the cavalry in the Czech Army, V i e st from Klanowitz, explained to me in the course of a conversation that in the broad masses the attack on the legionaries was not regarded as something very tragic. Above all the people who were skipped by a legionary in the service or by a Legionnaire somehow into the background As a pei game, Viest cites the case of a traficant from Klanowitz, who was assigned a legionary as a member of the Trafik and was thus brought to a considerable part of his income, although the legionaire owns 30 strokes of field and a high pension.Among the officers who were in the the Austrian army and were forced to the wall in the Czech army, who approved the measures against the legionaries. The mayor of Klanowitz zkmrx (a former agrarian) scolded the article of the Secretary of State in a rough way and explained that the legionaries will settle with the Germans again. Chief Radaktuer H l a d í k vom Marnx N á r o d n í x s t ř e d told me that on 11.1.1941 there was a great excitement in the NG in Geistgasse and that a government crisis was expected there.It is clear that Min.E l i a š and a few other Members will leave.Hladik told that a number of people agree with the measures taken against the Fegionaries,because they are not the only ones who are in favour of this. The legionaries had remained faithful to Beneš and had continued to work.In the area of Eliš's, a Legionnaire's clan had emerged, which, although not directly connected with him, had not been able to determine everything at the end. Jiden went on to say that he was a two-year-old.