STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1178, sig. 109-4/932

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: Aoa -- -8 - But we shouldn't get to rest again The splendor of the tension lasted only 5 days.A new operation was already in preparation, i.e. 4o km. north-west of Orsha, where a parachute group from Moscow burned down a village close to this line, and two railway guard houses on the Ironbanh line, the Germans and German-friendly inhabitants all butchered and destroyed the teleise. Insgesantly, l8 Germans fell victim to this attack. They were railroadmen and a protective command for them. The 2oo men then fled into an inaccessible forest, glided from the rustling inhabitants of the destroyed village. Furthermore, there were to be other gangs there. Personally, this new operation BMBE could not shake so much, since I did not have vacation from Kdr. Our batl. sat on the ordered days after the place in question in march, and arrived there in programm. Hardly we were one-half hour in that village and prepared for an overnight stay, when we suddenly shot grenade from a well-goo ntr. We were in the same village and were prepared for a night's sleep. Fortunately, this unfriendly reception did not result in any loss to us, only one member of the Russian order service who was assigned to us was seriously injured the upper arm by a grenade. An immediate repulsion did not succeed, as this fei- ture of course immediately withdrew. Meanwhile, the other associations also arrived, including a Batl. of the French Legion, which made a proper impression. Over the whole day, a real life of life developed in that village, and it was not so easy to defend the quarters we had set up against the other associations and partly higher bars, because we had, of course, the best quarters when the first ones arrived; at least no one got us out of there. On the following day, at 3 o'clock in the morning, we again took our starting point for the ordered boiler line, which was already much faster and more practiced. This procedure in the early morning was far from pleasant, because in this area it had to be expected strongly with mines. But fortunately, pir had been lucky, on 54162