STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 7, sig. 109-1/8 Page 6 · 6 of 9
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 7, sig. 109-1/8
English Translation
2a had been employed by the railway and had also planned sabotage files for the time being. Although middle and lower post and iron railway employees were to be used for this purpose, the leadership was also in pronounced intelligence circles. They were officers, professors, lawyers, senior officials of trade unions. Of the 596 persons who have so far appeared in this group in the district of the Prague State Police Department, 360 belong to the intellectual class. For political work in wider sections of the population, an illegal press was published in close cooperation with the organization of the former officers. The articles for the related journals and leaflets were almost consistently written by Czech intellectuals. They were involved: senior ministerial officials, representatives of free professions, senior officers, lawyers and professors. In the case of the persons detained by the State Police Department of Brno, the following participation of the intelligence arises: 1.) Political group: A total of 18 arrests, of which 9 professors, 3 other teachers, 4 lawyers, 1 re- dacteur,. l Radio director. 2.) Resistance group: According to the most recent figures 690 arrests, of which 145 former officers, now retired, 2 former non-commissioned officers, 186 middle officials (including many former officers who were accommodated after retirement as middle officials), 6 university teachers and professors, 59 other teachers, 1 pastor, 16 doctors and pharmacists, 15 lawyers, 36 engineers and technicians, 22 senior officials, 48 merchants and employees of the economy and industry, 15 students, 51 craftsmen, 73 workers, 7 peasants, 8 Jews. There are already 95 former/retired Offi-Archiwa1350 99A09-1-8 to arrest this group.