English Translation

-2- 36 Article from the illegal "Rudé Pravo" of 15.4.43 proves. As far as the Czechs are concerned about the Czech Legion, it is stated that it has a considerable strength (the data vary between a battalion and several hundred thousand men) and is very brave, with the pilots having proved themselves particularly well. As a commander, as reported from Iglau, a colonel S v o b o d a was called. In addition, a lieutenant J a r o š was occasionally mentioned, whose death on the front is also mentioned in the illegal "Rudé Pravo" mentioned above. In connection with the Bolshevik offensive at the time of the struggles for Stalingrad, General P r c h a - l a was also mentioned. Furthermore, it is said that tanks donated and guided by Czechs bear the names "Lidice" and "Ležaky". Little has been said about the awards of Czech officers so far; it is said that a lieutenant-general from the area of Neuchâtel had been awarded; individual members of the Czech Legion had received the Lenin Order, which led the Chechens in Iglau to say that they saw that the Chechnya were very good soldiers. A Bata worker in Zlin spread that Stalin had addressed himself with a message to the Czech legionaries, many soldiers had been awarded the Golden Star and awarded the honorary title "Hero of the Soviet Union" to a Czech lieutenant. The Czech Legion, as reported from Iglau, has been used under the slogan "The election is called victory" and fights after the Hussite slogan "Hat it, drive it, kill it, do not spare the Germans" and the call "Death to the German oppressors". A Czech worker employed at Bat'a in Zlin counts that the Czech voluntary organisations had taken two villages in one day and destroyed 20 German tanks. In general, it can be noted that little has been said about a Czech legion in the Soviet Union. Moderate Czech middle classes in Moravian-Ostrava express their dismay at the existence of this legion, since it is to be feared that these legionaries, if the Soviets would win, would form a pusher for the Bolshevization of Bohemia and Moravia.