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The Commander of the Security Police and SD Prague, 23 June 1943 XIX, Kastanienallee 19 Tgb. Nr. B. d. S. I - 1639/43 g Please indicate the above business sign and date when answering. Secretly to the Higher SS and Police Leader SS-Obergruppenführer State Secretary K.H. Frank Betr.: Czech unity in the Red Army; here: Colonel Ludvik Svoboda. Introduction: There. St.S. IV P 15/43 It became known that Svoboda fled to Poland in the summer of 1939 and joined the Czech legion there. With the legionnaire unit under him he was imprisoned after the Russian invasion of East Poland. Svoboda became commander of various Russian stop camps, where members of the Czech Legion were accommodated after he had made himself available to the Russians. In 1941 Sv. played a major role in the formation of Czech parachute agents. In September 1941, the parachute agents jumped off the Kremsier area and ordered greetings to his family who were still living there. The brothers of Mrs. Svoboda, Eduard Stratiil, born 5.6.1906 and Jaroslav Stratiile, born 13.4.1910 were sentenced to death by the Brno State Court for support of parachute agents and shot on 7.5.1942. Their mother Agnes StratiIL, born 1.6.1883, is in the Ravensbrück concentration camp for support from parachuted agents. The father of the wife Svoboda, Eduard Stratiil, born 11.3.1873 in Cvrvcovic, was appointed on 23.12.1942 with the aim of the admission office of the Secretary of State to the security police in Bohmen and Moravia Eing.: 26 JUNE 1943 St. G. IV 9-15 g/43 g