A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1362, sig. 109-4/1116

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2a On the basis of the report of the senior teacher, the witnesses, Ing. Stefan Rj a z a n c e v, his daughter, Valentine R j a s a n z o v a, born 14.9.1924 in Raudnitz, and Jifi L i p i n s k y, born 19.3.1923 in Rautnitz, belong to the case which confirmed the statements of the supreme teacher Bauer. StefanR j a z an n c c ev explained during his interrogation that the pupil of the VII. a class of the Realgymnasium in Raudnitz Karel D v o î a k, who was mentally somewhat weaker and very violent, had often been in contact with him and had talked to him several times about the present war. In these conversations he had found that D vo f a k was not directly German-friendly, but was completely satisfied with the present regime. In the last two months he had noticed that D v o î a k had changed his attitude towards the current regime and that the reason for his now direkt anti-German attitude was that he was being chased against the Germans by his classmates. D v o f a k is said to have been beaten several times by the students of his class, since he greeted the German senior teacher Bauer with the German greeting. He should also have been asked by his classmates to refrain from dealing with Germans or German-friendly people and to show himself to be right-wing Czechs, otherwise he would be hanged together with all Germans after the change that should come in a short time. On the basis of such and similar influences, D o a k should have tried to change his classmates. In order to examine his conversion he should have been asked by his class-mates to murder Bauer, with whom D o f a k. wanted to have agreed after long speeches by his fellow students. During her interrogation, the witness Valentine R j a s a n z o v a confirmed in general the statement of her father's Ing. Stefan R ja s a nz o v and also stated that D v o i a k in the presence of the daughter of the senior teacher B a u e r on 14.6.1942 wanted to explain to her that he (Dvofak) would die as a Czech national hero and would like to fight alongside England against Germany. On June 18, 1942, D o a k was said to have explained to her beyond the court gate that he himself would murder the head teacher B a u r and have literally said to her: "If I had a gun, I will now go and 19804 this EI0