English Translation

News clipping from Prague's Abeud dated27.1ar 1942No.7. The funeral ceremony for 44-brigade leader Dr. Stah'ecker Prague, 27 March. The funeral ceremony was held at 4 p.m. in the German Hall of the Prague Castle in honour of the early commander of the security police who fell in Osteinsass at the Reichsguardor in Bohemia and Moravia, Bri- gadeführer and Major General of the police doctor Walter Stahlecker. Bor den Sarg held the four leaders with pulled swords the honour watch. There were numerous wreath and flower donations around the coffin. Among the mourners there was reverential silence when the widow and her relatives, led by F-Obergruppenführer Seldrich, entered the hall. The mourners rose from their places and silently offered the German greeting. In his eulogy the representative Reichsproteltor led among others. from: "I have a serious duty to say goodbye to bon unse rem ff=comrades Dr. Stahleker, who was seriously wounded in the fight against Bolshevik guerrillas as a result of the war with the Reichskommissar Ostland and died on the transport to his homeland." s=Obergrup- penführer Heydrich then praised the outstanding achievements of the so abruptly divorced from his work-rich life. On behalf of the Reichsführer 4-Obergruppenführers Hehdrich expressed his thanks and highest recognition. Under the sounds of the song of the good comrade, the Deputy Reich Protector laid down the wreath of the imperial leader and his own, while the mourners greeted him with their arms raised. Under the sounds of the songs of the nation, the coffin was carried out of the hall through the middle passage. Behind the coffin there were four upper group leaders Hehdrich and Frc Stahlecker. A funeral parade consisting of a company of the armed forces, the police and the army, under the command of F-Oberführer Voß, had taken place in front of the Burghof with a music corps and flag. Fm background had taken a company of the weapons-f stand, which, as the car was slowly sitting in motion, shot three-fold mourning salute. Bor the main entrance of the castle were the flags on half-mast. At the funeral ceremony participated numerous representatives of state, Wehrmacht and party. Among them was the representative of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Reich, the F-Oberführer Lieus, the head of the Boermann upper division of Schulte-Schomburg, the chief of the Ordnungsbolizei Major General of the Bolizei of Grol- mann, and the Wehrmacht's representative. Czech side near the head of the B Dr. Krejči, and more