GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 697, sig. 110-4548

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Wehrmachtberichter verrichtiger beim Reichsprotektor und Schichhaber im Wehrkreis Böhmen u. Mähren. Fig. 1c... Attachment to No.1384/43 go. Prague, 25.8.43. 9 Betr.: Soviet-Russian prisoners of war of Czech nationality. Chronological overview of the messages received and the measures taken by the W Bv. April 1943: 2 Children's announcement that a Czecho-Slovak unit led by Colonel Swoboda had successfully fought against the German troops at a front section of the Eastern Front. 17.4.43: The representative of the Foreign Office to the Reichsprotektor i. B.u.M. sends an interrogation transcript of the Czech prisoner Karl Eger on the Eastern Front. 3.5.43: Report from the branch of Prague that only a Czecho-Slovak battalion was found during the fighting on the eastern front, of which three prisoners were made. Among these prisoners is said to be a defected lieutenant. (Meldung Major Schrader, OKH-Heerwesen-Abtlg.) 4.5.43: Telex W Bv to OKH / Gen.Quartiermeister K.V. (Kgf.) asking to transfer the three members of the Czech Legion who had fallen into prisoner of war in the East to Prague for a short period of time to carry out their interrogation. 7.5.43: OKH /Genst.d.H./Abbot.Foreign armies East (II) sends the interrogation of the war-captured Czech Karl Eger carried out by the High Command of the 4th Panzer Army. 8.5.43: Telex of the W Bv to OKH -Genst.d.H./Abt.Frem- de Heere Ost, e.g. by Colonel I.G. Gehlen, asking for a statement whether army units or Waffen-SS have been in combat against Czech units and how the fight went. 8.5.43: Interlocutory consultation Colonel v. Wick with Obert i.G. Gehlen: A company of the 1.Btl. of the Czechoslovak troops appeared at the beginning of March 43 in the region south east of Kharkov. 25.5.43: Forwarding of the interrogation of Karl Eger from 7.5.43 to the Lord Reich Protector, i.e. by Sturmbannführer Wolf. 29.5.43: Telex OKH/Gen.Quartiermeister (Qu.5) to W Bv: The Soviet-Russian prisoner of war Oblt. cschechische Volkstums is an oblt. Se n j a k, z.Zt. Stalag 382 Borrisov. OKH / Gen.Quart.Meister ordin- nete, that this is to be made available to the W BV temporarily for understanding purposes and concerns enforcement notification until 10.6.43. 29.5.43: telex OKH/Gen.Quart.Meister (Qu.5) to W Bv with the notification that in Stalag 378 Dnieprpetrovsk