English Translation

- 3 - 6 I would now like to introduce you to these experiences of the Battle of Sokolov, which are three former corporals, one MG shooter and one soldier from the "Czechoslovak Union in the Soviet Union". The first is the Corporal Jiří Šmolik, former auxiliary engineer from Kwasilov b) Rowno in East Poland, who is already known to you from my remarks. Šmolik is a national of the Czech Republic. He attended Czech schools in Prague, but had a former Polish nationality. The second is the Slovak corporal Imrich Kuric from Zborov b) Čadca in Slovakia. The third is the Corporal Karl Eggerm former motor vehicle leader from Moravian-Ostrava, who is the race according to Jude, but who is known as Czech during the 1930 census. For the sake of completeness and, above all, to give you a faithful image of the nationalities represented in the "Czechoslovak unity" - 30 % of the unity was Jews - he too should speak here today. The fourth man is the Czech worker František Šnajdr, whose family emigrated in 1925 from Morawan b) Gaya in Moravia to Frolovo b) Stalingrad. Finally, the Carpathian Ukrainian Wasil Maksimisinec from Uglya b) Tačovo in the former Karpatho Ukraine remains. First of all, however, you might be interested in how two of the prisoners of war presented to you come into the German uniform. If you ask the two, they will tell you that they volunteered for a technical battalion shortly after their capture as "helpers" and since then belong to such a technical unit in the East. As such, they wear the German uniform, but are not soldiers, but lead the name "helpful". Accordingly, they do not have a paybook as the soldiers do, but a so-called identification book. Economically and nutritionally, however, they are completely equal to the German soldiers. You will receive the same solid and same food. I would particularly like to remind you that Šmolik