STATE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1795, sig. 109-5/23

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Sll Sicherheitsdienft RF Prag-Bubentfch 6. 6.40 SD-Leitabfchnitt Prag Sachfenweg Fernfprecher 77444 D - PA 1987 bice! Office of the State Secretary bein Reichsprotector Anotheg in Bohemia and Moravia. 115/4.40 Eing.: 8.JUNI 1940 To Tgb. Nr.: 3274 State Secretary f18/6 at the Reichsprotektor in Böhmen and Moravia 4-group leader K. H. Fr a n k Prag z.H. M-Sturmbannführer G i e s s Betr.: K l o č u r a k Štefan , former minister of the Karpatho-Ukrainian government, Prague XII, Anglická 11 Vorg.: There.Schr. of 15.5. 40 Kločurak was Minister of the Carpatho Ukraine (in the direction of Vološin) and fled to Prague during their connection to Hungary. Kločurak is Czechophile and Panslavist.His excellent connections with the Czechs date back to the year 19l8. At that time, with his infantry regiment, he refused obedience to the Prague city commander and ran over to the Czech. In recognition of his position, these later placed him at the head of the agricultural cooperatives in the Carpatho-Ukraine) in the Karpatho Russia of the Czechoslovak Republic. In this position he then covered various shifts in the woodcut in the forests of the Carpathian Ukraine, which contributed millions to the Czech agrarians.During his tenure he also managed to establish good relations with the Czech clergy.After his escape to Prague he organized with Dr. S o - k o l the Karpatho-Ukrainian refugee aid and in this capacity a large circle of relatives with whom he is said to have concluded an agreement with the Czechs in Feber 1939, according to which a possible - 2 -