STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2024, sig. 109-7/31

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73 - 20 - for technical schools in the Czech Ministry of Education, later he returned to school and has been living in Zlin for several years, where he is responsible for the entire port education system in the local Bata plants. In addition, Rosa works on the Avslandeangeleranh. company and is supposed to be there also after abroad. In mid-June 1 940 different places with foreign arrivals were at the border, that they were sent abroad as employees at Bata to carry out important business affairs with the approval of German agencies. Where the headquarters no longer helped, the branches in the Auşland were mainly of assistance to Yugoslavia. The Italian steamer "Oceania" was brought up from the English side on the way to South America on 13.4.1940; in Marseille 48 protectorate members were brought down from the steamer.All were from Bata on the trip to South American. It turned out that the few of them had indicated the true destination on their departure. A large part of them travelled on non-valid former Czechoslovak passports, which are still recognised in Yugoslavia, among others.Another part had indicated that Yugoslavia was a destination when the visa was issued, some were - 21