STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1775, sig. 109-5/3 Page 7 · 7 of 63
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1775, sig. 109-5/3
English Translation
- 3 - 3 that he and Smudek had killed the police officer Kniest. Both the German and the Czech sides immediately launched a large-scale search, the protectorate government issued an appeal on 23 March, the president of the country with a photograph on 27 March 1994o, in which the population was asked to provide assistance in the search. On the seizure of the perpetrator was suspended by the municipality of Taus a reward of 2ooo.-- , by the protectorate government of lo.ooo.- - Reichmark , Nevertheless it was not possible to seize Smudek so far , since he apparently finds the support of the population again and again , Thus he changed for example several times the clothes . On 25. At about 4 o'clock in the morning he went to Tschernikau (between Taus and Klattau) to visit his former classmate Karl Kuba, technical officer in Pilsen, with the request for help. Cuba, however, only led him out of the village, but did not indicate the meeting, nor did he talk about it, when he was interrogated in other contexts the next day because of Smudek. Therefore, Cuba was sentenced by the Special Court of the German District Court in Prague on 3 March 1994 to a prison sentence of lo years. In the evening hours of 29 March 1994 Smudek wanted to take refuge in the Prague suburb of Spořilov with his friend Ladislaus Voitěch. In anticipation of such a visit, an official of the Czech secret police had been accommodated in the apartment. When Smudek appeared, Vojtěch immediately drew his attention to this circumstance, so that Smudek was able to escape again. Vojděch was therefore sentenced to death for violating the decree of the Imperial Protector in Bohemia and Moravia of 26 August 1939 for sabotage, the sentence it has been enforced in the meantime. The apparent support of Smudek by the Czech population and its deed to a Hel ian state of liberty, which is a sign of sympathy, can just be described as a "latent disturbance of public life". It is characteristic of the whole attitude and attitude of the Czech people.