English Translation

The aim was not achieved any more because the final formation of the head was prevented by the local access. The circle of people arrested and still to be arrested in this context by the Prague State Police Department, some of whom have fled, is composed almost exclusively of Czech intellectuals. Of 68 people, 59 belong to the intellectual class. Among them are: 5 university teachers, 4 lawyers, 2 ministers, 5 senior ministerial officials, 2 judges, 4 professional representatives, 1 doctor, 1 engineer, 1 architect. The committee, which had formed for the purpose of summarizing illegal work, first set itself the goal of keeping the Czech national consciousness up and preparing the people by political education for a change in the state-law conditions of the protectorate. The committee itself was about to form various commissions for its work. Some of the Committee's experts had already drawn up constitutional laws for a new Czechoslovak by university professors, who themselves had knowledge of this work at the highest level of the Protectorate. In addition to the suggested formation of a head for all illegal work, the creation of a military-manual organization in connection with this head is to be regarded as the most important illegal attempt to prepare a change in state law in the Protectorate. This organization was built up and led by senior officers of the former Czech general staff - i.e. exclusively by the intelligence - and had the purpose of taking over power in the present protectorate in due time and also acting openly against Germany. To this organization was a group, which was connected with the news