English Translation

- 2 - CSR and the Soviet Union he had mentioned nothing. He had always only stated that under the protection of the English and American guarantees Czechoslovakia would resurrect in its former borders. In Czech unity there had been no political commissioners. In the civil Russian conditions he had gained only limited insight. In theatre and film, only propaganda plays were shown in Busuluk. When asked about the fighting spirit of the Soviet army, he explained that one could not really speak of a fighting spirit, since the durability of the red army is mainly based on the tremendous rigour with which officers and commissioners hold the troops together. This rigour had also been stained off on their part of the troops. He remembered that Colonel Svoboda personally degraded a corporal of her unit and had some soldiers detained because they had engaged in talks with the prisoners on their way to the front in the Pensa, when they passed a mixed Romanian-Slovak prisoner transport. The statements of the Egger about the course of the first clash of Czech unity with the German Wehrmacht on 8.3.1943 are in direct contradiction to the claims of the enemy r and funk. I read individual enemy radio messages to the Ecker stating that they are statements of fellow prisoners. Egger described the passages read as exaggerated lies. He had not seen a single burning German tank and no fallen German soldier. Nor had the lieutenant-chief J aos had any flak among him at all (as Moscow radio claimed) and there could be no mention of a Czech resistance at all. It had been a hopeless mess, as the German tanks pushed forward the first