English Translation

- 3 - served with an Austrian Landwehr infantry regiment. Otherwise he did not perform military service. The defendant is not popular da atad p S. II. The Czech resistance movement (Obrana noroda). Just as before the World War and in its course, public and secret organizations formed themselves in the Auslan de and in the Danube monarchy with the aim of achieving state independence for the Czech people, soon after the establishment of the Protectorate, both in its territory and abroad, under the leadership of former President Beneš, the aim was to regain the state independence of the Czechs. In the Protectorate, the Obrana naroda (ON.) formed, disintegrating into a military and a civilian group, all those Chechens from the circles of the former army, the intelligence and the bourgeoisie, without regard to their former party political attitude sat t a c aao ua created conditions dissatisfied and the - if necessary force=same - re-establishment of an independent Czech state, however, not only the organizational coverage of discontented and stormy-minded population circles, but above all the precaution of the overthrow itself in every possible way. In addition to the establishment of military units, this included the preparation of their armaments, the procurement of funds for overthrown purposes, the planning and possible execution of sabotage files against important military institutions in the Protectorate, the influence on the broad masses of the Czech people by producing and spreading anti-German writings and the maintenance of a close connection with the Czech independence movement working abroad. One of its other tasks was the ON. da- rin, the Czechs, who had to expect their arrest by the German authorities or who wanted to go abroad, partly in order to