STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 387, sig. 109-4/132

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Copy Appendix 2 The Technical Reluctance Movement 1939 - 1941. I.) 1939 to Frihiahr 1940. ..2.) The militaroresnization (obrana naroda or Narodni odboy, i.e., Natian struggle) formed immediately after the establishment of the Protectorate from former offices and occupation under-commissioned officers of the liquidated Teckechoslovak army. The groups, initially spontaneously formed among various officers of the former Ministry of Defence, the Gonerel Staff and the Generality, were gradually expanded into a well-organized illegal association. The leadership was first taken by General B i 1 y (legally shot), General N e u m a n (enigrated), Oberet K u d 1 a & e k (emigrated), Colonel V e d a 1 (emigrant), Lieutenant-Colonel A d 1 e r (in custody), deneralintendant S p e v a - ek (deceased in detention), General i h a k (emmigrated). He was General V o j t a (legally shot). Lt. Col. A d 1 e r had l0 radio spexia lists, which were crunched with 6 shortwall apparatuses. Generalintendahts-p-e-v a č e k , at the 120. The organization financed over 1,000 RM from funds from the former Ministry of Netional Defence and from donations from the techechische Ruetungsindustrie.