CORRESPONDENCE, REPORTS, ORDERS, DIARIES, and PAMPHLETS 1941-45; 1950-52.
Situation report of the battle at Sokolov Photocopies. a. (March 1943).
Excerpts of the Fahndungskorrespondenz in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
Pamphlet: Biography of General Ludvik Svoboda, published (confiscated after the Slansky trial). August 1945
"O NOVEM KAZENSKEM RADY," (by) Michal Stemr (and) Karel Prasek. 73p. b. (1950).
"VALECNY DENIK 1. DELASTRELECKELW PLUKU V SSR" (original). War diary of the 1st Czechoslovakian Artillery Regiment in the USSR. (Boj v Dukla: Battle at the Dukla Pass c. 30. 7. 1944 - 21. 10. 1944. )
Miscellaneous documents (originals and photocopies) from the photo and document collection "LESTOV BYOVE SLENY." d.
1) Cable to J.V. Stalin of concerning the tank fund, which was raised by members of the Corps while going to the Soviet-German front. February 11, 1943,
2) Letter of Klement Gottwald and Vaclav Kopecky, in which they congratulate the Corps on its early departure for the front.
3) Receipt from the State Bank in Micurinsk, where our soldiers delivered 100,000 rubles for tanks.
4) Description of battles from the war diary of March 8, 1943.
5) One of the camps around Cernovice, where the I Czech Army Corps in the USSR was created and where the soldiers lived in tents and shepherds' huts during summer training.
6) Record about the battle for Kiev of as described in the war diary of the I Czech Army Corps in the USSR. November 4, 1943,
7) Part of the war diary of the I Czech Army Corps in the USSR from Sept. 22, 1944.
8) Photocopies of confidential decrees and orders illustrating problems related to the battle for Kiev, in which our soldiers distinguished themselves.
9) Evaluation of the performance of the tank brigade in the battles near Opava, by the 373rd Soviet Artillery regiment.
10) Letter of the commander of the I Czech Army Corps in the USSR to Klement Gottwald, in which Lt. Col. Ludvik Svoboda asks the representative of the Moscow leadership of the Communist Party to visit our Corps.
11) This is the Novochoper road, which our soldiers used daily when they went to the training ground.
12) One page of the annals of the I Czech Army Corps in the USSR.
13) Congratulations from Army General Rokossowski to the I Czech Army Corps for the successful battles around Sokolov.
14) Special edition of For A Free Czechoslovakia.
15) Congratulations from Klement Gottwald to the I Czech Army Corps in the USSR for the battle of Bila Cerkev.
16) Cable of comrade Khrushchev, in which he congratulates and thanks the I Czech Army Corps in the USSR for its participation in the liberation of the Ukraine.
17) Letter of Generals Khrushchev and Valutin, in which they praise the participation of Czechoslovak soldiers in the Charkov operation, and wish further success to the Corps.
18) Decree of the Presidium granting the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union" to Lieutenant Otakar Jaros.
19) Proclamation of the commander of the Corps to J.V. Stalin about departure of the I Czech Army Corps in the USSR for the front.
20) Our soldiers in Buzuluk - young and old - they started with basic training, in order to become masters of their arms through diligent preparation.
1) List of names of soldiers of the 2 Engineer Battalion of the 1st Czechoslovakian Army in the USSR who were killed in the battles at Dukla Pass in g. fall 1944 winter 1944-45.
2) Military training program of the 4 Czechoslovakian Training Battery, (original). 20 - 25 March 1944
3) Proposal for military manoeuvres.
4) Original work of Colonel B. Lomsky (Minister for National Defense (1956-1968), with handwritten annotations. Personally typed and handwritten evaluation of the battles of the 1st Czech Brigade in the USSR in the area of Kiev-Bila-Cerkov-Zhaskov from until This work has never been published; it was given as a lecture at a conference of the General Staff by Gen. Lomsky on Oct. 1943 March 1944. Dec. 14 1947.
5) Proclamation to the town of Horna Lehota by the commander of the 2 Czechoslovakian Paratroop Brigade in the USSR, 1st Lieutenant V. Prikryl, and the Soviet Commissar of the Brigade, Capt. Eng. M.M. Glider, during the national uprising (original).
6) Mapping of the defenses of the village Potucek, a key position on the Polish-Czechoslovakian border at Dukla Pass, by the 1st Artillery Regiment of the 1st Czechoslovakian Army in the USSR, 1st Battery of the 1st Division.
7) Letter of a captured German soldier who was interrogated by M. Stepanek in the battle at Kiev The soldier was killed on Nov. 5 (original). (Nov. 2, 1943).
8) 2 Czechoslovakian Engineer Brigade.
9) 1st concert of the "Army's artistic group" welcoming Nejedly in Prague May 1945.
Extract from a "Biography of Gen. Ludvik Svoboda," by M. Stepanek. h.
Newspapers of the 1. Czechoslovakian Army in the USSR, World War II.
Za svobodne Ceskoslovensko. Denik 1. Ceskoslovenskeno Sboru V SSSR. (For a free Czechoslovakia. Central newspaper of the 1. Czechoslovakian Army in the USSR). First published in during the march of the 1 Czech Army from the Bucovina to the Carpathian Mountains (Polish-Czech border) a-g. August 1944
No Title
Front-line newspaper of the Czechoslovakian units in the Soviet Union. h-i.
Nase Vojsko V SSSR (Our military forces in the USSR. (Originals) (Dailies)
Front-line newspapers of the units of the 1 Czechoslovakian Army in the USSR, mimeographed in three languages (Czech, Slovakian, and Ukrainian) for Carpatho-Ukrainians, at this time still subjects of Czechoslovakia. Very rare copies. a.
Nase vojsko v SSSR
Plamen slobody
Nova Sloboda
Denny Zpravy
Smer Zapad
Bojovnik
Individual issues of periodicals. b.
Nase vojsko (Published in the first weeks after Germany's capitulation, while Czechoslovakia was still in the state of war. Illustrated magazine, original photographs, which were confiscated after the Slansky trial).
Cas (Central organ of the Democratic Party in Slovakia) 1st year of publication 1944.
Photographs (printed copies). f.
Women in the Czechoslovakian units in the USSR.
Fragments of the first photo publication of the 1 Czechoslovakian Army in the USSR. Confiscated after the war.