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43 Secret State Police Prague II, 15 November. 19.40.. State Police Station Prague Bredauer baffe 18 Telephone call: No. 30041 Secret! B.-Mr. 54/39g - II B M - Please indicate in the answer the voting badge and date. Quick letter! To office of the Secretary of State W-Group leader State Secretary K.H. F r deimkReuchsprotector in Bohemia and mähren. in P r a g Eing.: 17.NOV.1940 Tgb. No.: Subject: Resistance group of the illegal Czech secret organization "Narodni odboj" and arrest of the former army general Josef B i 1 y. Procedure : Known matter. Attachments : Without. On 1 May 1940, after lengthy investigations, the former Czech army general Joseph B i I 1 y, born in December 1939, succeeded. 30.6.1872 in Zbonin, last in Prague II., Nikolandagasse 4 had been settled. B i l y was in possession of a citizen's legitimization issued by the Lifun Police Directorate in Prague on 19.l.40 in the name Jan B r o z e k, geb. 15.l.l878 in Pardubitz, in charge of Pardubiz, married, civil servant in general, on the basis of which he has since legally lived in various pensions and summer homes in Prague and Bohemia. From General B i l y is based on a report from a Polish news officer found in Warsaw to the head of the II. Department of the General Staff in War- he already spoke with this Polish news officer in April 1939 about the cooperation of the resistance groups with the Polish Wehrmacht in the event of a war between Poland and Germany. Furthermore, he tried to clarify to what extent Czech officers who crossed the Polish border in order to drive immediately to England could count on concession by the Polish authorities. He continued to try to the Polish officer a letter for the former Czech military attaché in Warsaw Lieutenant Colonel K u m p o s t Wee.an.3. 19u0 bothe /am 2/M N. before f. to enter lubgeiboe. 11 of 51