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

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34 8 guerrilla group near Minsk, Bolshevik paratroopers were to land at the airfield occupied by the rebels. The following preparations had been made for the implementation of this plan: 1. In the war hospital I, city maps and maps of Minsk and the surrounding area were produced during the night hours, in which the objects that were to be attacked were specifically designated. 2. Some of the ringleaders charged with heating the officers' rooms used this opportunity to constantly listen to the Moscow station with the radio there and to inform themselves about the declining movements of the German troops. According to the assumed rearmost position of the deuty lines, the standing date was fixed. The first strike was made by doctors and paramedics to move freely between camps that were at the centre of their lives.