STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 483, sig. 109-4229 (damaged)

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Of this money, partly by Klapka himself, partly with his consent by Kinkal, a sum of at least 450 O00 crowns was passed on to persons who were leading the ON. in this or that way. The main purpose of the money payments was to enable the relatives of cursed or for political reasons - ao Sm taSaaoan, who intended to enter the Czech Legion, to leave the Protectorate secretly. To this end, substantial amounts were paid to Jošt in particular. Jošt also cooperated with Emil Schneeberger, Czech lawyer, who had been sentenced to death by the senate's judgment of 13 February 1942 - 1 H 207/4l - for treason, preparation for treachery, favouring the enemy and attempted treason by lying to death. Schneeberger came together with Karl Kraus, the fugitive engineer Goller from Prague and the fleeting teacher Franzišek Bednar, who all worked in the group led by Jošt, through his references to Jost, by judgment of the People's Court of 24 April 1942 - 1 H 199/4l. At the end of March 1940, when Schneeberger had accommodated Jošt, who no longer felt safe in Prague, in his brother's hunting home in Luh, he was constantly in contact with Jost, provided him with news and reports from other illegal persons, collected the reports he received from Joss, Kraus, Goller and Bedndr, and directed them partly in their original version, partly after processing, as well as the reports which he himself designed, mainly to the now deceased lawyer Ebert in Prague for transmission to the Western powers. In part, he used the help of the office staff Anna Volman, who was sentenced to eight years in prison by judgment of the discerning Senate of 13 February 1942 - 1 H 207/4l - for aid to prepare for high treason and to the enemy=favor. In July 1939, he fled from the Protectorate to Poland and later went to Bucharest, where he worked with Dr. Kahdnek against the Reich. Dr.Kahanek - a Jew - was formerly Re--