STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2145, sig. 109-8/28

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English Translation

- 2 - first lesson, he must teach Czech because he does not master the German language enough. In general, the German participants feel affected by skillfully applied speech styles of various Czech officers who teach at the school or somehow appear through lectures. the commander of the Gendarmerie-Ergünzungabteilung, Major Biskup, a lecture in which he explained among other things: "A bad guy is the one who spits in his own well". This statement was understood by the German students as if the former Czechoslovak Republic had made something of them, and that they would now proceed against the Czechs. However, his statement could also refer to the Czechs who today profess Germanism. Major Biskup also said, "The present world war is a struggle of two great thoughts and in it we all - he pointed to the listeners - mean nothing at all."Major Biskup also introduced a German gendarmerie-llajor on 20.1.1942 as a "presenter with a short speech, admonishing, among other things, the pupils to be faithful to the kingdom. This admonition of a Czech gendarmerie officer seemed strange to the German pupils. It is remarkable that Biskup performed a very mysterious activity in the ranks of the gendarme at the beginning of 1940. He ordered, among other things, Peld-,Marsch- und Antrittspruchen der Gendarmierebeanten and had them practiced in the course under the leadership of Gendarme officers. Among the students at the officer school are the Oberwachtneister Saroch from the gendarmerie post Jung-Bunzlau and Havel from the Gendarnererie post Tymokur. These are told that they were working at a Czech border guard at the Reich border in 1938. Allegedly they were arrested at the time and taken to the Reich, where they were supposed to have been imprisoned for a long time. Lately they would be put into the Reich by German courts in order to be interrogated as witnesses. Major Biskup would have allegedly expressed that Saroch and Havelschöne positions would be obtained. About Šaroch it is already known that until the annexation of the Sudetenland to the Reich as active Czech gendarmerie in the area of Gossengrün, he acted in the sharpest form against Germanism.