STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1889, sig. 109-5/117

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Willich 9Cl The undersigned and present Polgendes at the city office in Franzensbad as spa guests of the spa town of Franzens Bad: On 27 June 1938 we drove from FranzensBad to Eger to visit the city and then to take the coffee in the surrounding area. We wanted to visit the Imperial Castle in Eger.After having taken a short tour of the city, we first visited the old infantry barracks, as a curiosity we had previously been told that this barracks l9l3 had to be found to be highly structural and had to immediately be spaced out because there was a danger of collapse. This wall is said to house 500 people, including 350 children under inhumane surroundings. After a number of spa guests had already been begged by the children of this barracks in the past, we occasionally returned a small Sanung to the lunch table the Kč five hundred, so that we could give a small gift to the most needy among the poor. In the exercise of this social action, we were disturbed by organs of the čechische Gehenmpeggtet. The undersigned Ernst Mühlbauer-Berlin was placed by the state police and taken to the police bureaux, where he was subjected to interrogation and, among other things, indicated that the frivolous parties were worth as they were hesitating and where they came from, The interrogator, apparently a higher police officer, was among others unable to understand how foreigners were mingling into the internal affairs of the republic; no one was starving in Čedhoslovakia. Occasionally, the request to come to the police was made to the ladies present, some of whom speak only poorly in German, Czech at all, in a harsh tone, meaning that they may go home with the bus or wait in the Ratskeller. The ladies, who were already emotionally shaken by the appalling state of the poor quarters, were so frightened and frightened by the harsh and unusual prowess of the polzeiforgane in their homelands, that they were put to death for fear and fear, especially because they were, and for themselves, the 24898