English Translation

- 3 - General part As the bearer of the Czechs' foreign activities against the Reich, all Czechs living outside the border of the former Czechoslovakia and the German Reich can be addressed. Even before 1939 the strongest Czech colonies were in the Balkans, especially in Yugoslavia and then in France, overseas in the United States and Canada. The Czech colonies abroad received strong growth after the political upheavals of the year 1 939 due to the mass emigration of Czechs from the Protectorate, here again it was France and the Balkan countries that received the main migration. Slovakia also developed into an asylum for those Czechs who, for various reasons, avoided the Protectorate.This emigration was partly legal, partly illegal because of the state police measures to be feared or with the aim of entering the Czech Legion. While the traffic of the Czech colonies in Europe and North America is mainly made up of Czechs who have been resident for a long time, there are groups of Czech people in some Asian countries, who usually only temporarily reside there on behalf of larger export companies of the Protectorate (e.g. Škoda or Bata) and often change their whereabouts. To these purely Czech colonies or groups the Slovaks of Czechoslovak orientation are to be attributed. The attitude of these Czech colonies and groups in the country to the protectorate against the German Reich is with few exceptions hostile. In all countries, however, the desire to unite the active elements was expressed early on; the groups thus formed soon began to give concrete forms to their anti-rich activities. In this connection, the members of the former Czechoslovak diplomatic missions should be particularly emphasized, then the ge-