English Translation

Security Service of the Reichsführers-SS SD section Prague III - SA 226/1 To the Secretary of State at the Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia SS group leader K.H. Frank Prag Betr.: Impact of the reports of the Moscow Radio about Czech volunteer associations in the Soviet army. According to the local findings, for about 2 months in the Czech whisper propaganda there has been talk of the existence of a Czech legion in the Soviet Union, obviously in connection with the Russian winter offensive. Another spread was probably found in the wake of the last Benesh speech. However, it must be noted that the presence of a Czech legion in the Soviet Union is not one of the pronounced themes of whisper propaganda, which is likely to be related to the fact that the Czechs primarily listen to the English radio and not to the Moscow station. This is already demonstrated by the fact that many Czechs only heard of the fact of an active military operation of the Czechs on the eastern front through the substantial spread of Benesch's Easter speech in wider circles. Another reason for the relatively small spread of these rumors is probably a certain fear, as is reported e.g. from Moravian-Ostrava. A discussion is conspicuously avoided, obviously from the fear that the more this is discussed, the more likely German reprisals are to be reckoned with. In the extremely communist Czechs in Bohemia and Moravia, the existence of a Czech legion seems to be discussed in a less whisper-propaganda-like way, rather than being the subject of a advertising activity for the illegal struggle, albeit only small circles, but nevertheless purposeful, like a Prague-Bubentsch, Sachsenweg telespeaker 774-44 May 1, 1943