THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1908, sig. 109-5/136

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43 f to 2 Vazautvalli, which he must know for his particular task, etc.). In order to secure the actual party apparatus, he was severely isolated from the party the so-called technical apparatus, which is responsible for the production and distribution of illegal writings, in order not to endanger them with police access due to the dissemination of writings. The leadership of the illegal KPD is practically with the so-called polburo, which hears among others Pieck,Florin,Flieg. Apart from the aforementioned originals Brussels is of particular importance for the KPD. There the fourth Reich Conference of the Illegal KPD was held in October 1935. In the past 3 years, the domestic apparatus of the KPD has been heavily perforated by numerous police accesses. It has been and will always be built up, albeit with minor deviations. New functionaries are constantly being trained abroad. Money is abundantly available for illegal work. Thus, e.g. A higher official, recently arrested in Berlin, besides a fixed monthly salary of 400.- Mk. monthly 1.0oo.-- MK. for official expenses. These funds come experientially to a lesser extent from contributions in Germany, but mainly from abroad, i.e. from Moscow. It is remarkable that since 1933 the ratio of road cells to farm cells, which in legal time stood about 7:1, has been almost reversed (due to the dissolution of the Free Trade Unions on the one hand and, above all, to the reduction of unemployment on the other). 2.) Political tactics of the KPD. For the current political tactics of KpD are before Sa s TaCe a). Unity Front The KPD is aware that it alone is unable to endanger the National Socialist State. It therefore preaches - in accordance with the approaches of the VII. World Conference of the Comintern - the united front of all Marxists and the