THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN CHEIN AND MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1826, sig. 109-5/54

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15 1V, but only by civilians who know the locality, know the mentality of the population and speak the language. The exploration must extend to the exact determination of the stay of the guides, the positions of the guerrillas and their posts, their turrets and armaments as well as the terrain, with special consideration of the most favourable marching paths, especially in the obscure forest and marsh area preferred by the guersans, the terrain exploration is the first prerequisite for success. The security police and SD teams have achieved significant success through the use of civilian investigators. The destruction of partisans in the area around Cherson can be seen as a model example of security police combat. "When the Operations Command of the Security Police and SD entered Skadovsk, a middle village near Cherson, it was striking that the population lived in a constant fear of guerrillas, to an extent that the command had not yet been able to establish in the previously worked areas. The local residents explained again and again with certainty that in the dunes, which are between Chelbasy and Aleshki, there are armed guerrillas. these dunes./are moving in a length of 30 km and a width of 20 km, offer for partisans 109-5-54