STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2024, sig. 109-7/31 Page 36 · 36 of 70
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2024, sig. 109-7/31
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IS - 32 ~ 6.) Heavy industry The heavy industry of the Protectorate has extremely lively and fruitful relations with the closer and further abroad. First and foremost, it is Czechs who act as representatives of local companies abroad. The most important companies whose names appear in connection with the anti-rich Czech foreign activity are the B r n e r W a f f e r k e , which are also a centre of anti-German activity in the Protectorate, and the Pilsner Š k o d a - W e r K e . The Brno Armoured Works had a branch in Romania, which was the director of the Czech Š v e c , Bucharest. He was also a representative of Škoda's works. Švec, who is actively hostile to the rich, has now fled to Paris in early l940 with the Czech Secretary of Legation Dr. No v o t n ý and currently unknown Aufenthaltes. In Buenos Aires , Argentina, the Brno Arms Factory has a larger representation, which is managed by Ing. Ně m e č e k. Czech Ing, Němeček , Z ele n k a and Ing . H a n z l i k are the bearers of Czech anti-rich activity there, representatives of the Czechoslovak National Committee for Argentina and are probably a central office for South America. The Škoda factories also employ a whole range of Czechs who are engaged in an anti-rich activity abroad or are associated with members of enemy intelligence services. The Director of the Belgrade Škoda representation, V o r á - č e k , often deals with Russian emigrant Boris S k i b i c k i j , who is in contact with the Czech Emigration and works for the Serbian Intelligence Service. - 33 -