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

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English Translation

14a According to the report, the treatment at the GPU was actually quite glamourous, only once during an interrogation the gun was used to extort from him the confession that he had come to Russia as a German spy. He had been sentenced to three years of forced labour without trial and only on the basis of the Gpu interrogations that his brother had been given 5 years. In the forced labour camp, to which he was then transferred, all the nations were located. The most plentiful, but also the tormented inmates were Chinese, Japanese and other Asians. Political propaganda had not been made in the camp, only there had been several screenings. All films in Russia were propaganda films. He could not speak of a voluntary entry into the Czech legion. One day he was equipped with a legitimation and marched to Busuluk near Kuybyshev and received there by the Czech military unit. In the unity there were more than 30% Jews. Of the 50 women who served as news workers in the kitchen and in the hospital ward, about 30 were Jewish women. Every Bolshevik propaganda had been abstained from the troupe. The four Russian instructors had only given military instruction.A weekly "Osvětový a Zpravodajský důstojník" (Enlightenment and news officer) had given them an overview of the world's political situation.However, on Bolshevik and at all ideological issues, there had never been any discussion.