English Translation

4 39 In addition to abundant questionable elements from all over the world and adventurous fellows from the Slovak workers and peasants, young intellectuals, students and middle-class students are also appreciatively attached to them, more for romantic national reasons, because for a positive communist excess /t The strength of the anti-Czech movements in communist wings is most impressively shown by the attempt to precede an ÖsR rally by proclaiming a Slovak Soviet republic, which wanted to explain itself from the outset as a member state of the UdssR, whether it really came to this, is not known to me, serious efforts were in progress. l/ For the ideological uncertainty it seemed characteristic to me an anecdote, which the secretary of the "Matica Slovenska", Dr. Cincik announced in the Pressburg embassy. His brother was sentenced to death with 13 other HG officers. A Peloton, consisting of a Czech officer, some students and gypsies, should execute the sentence. The convicts first asked for a rosary for themselves. But when they prayed for their murderers, both the gypsies, when the students were moved to tears, refused the execution of the sentence and finally beat themselves on the side of the convicted to escape with them to the German lines. Also in the camp Slovenska Lubža one of the guarding gendarmes was seen in the Catholic service still ministrating with the red cloth at the mass, and so on more. 5