STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2107, sig. 109-7/114

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2 Z - 2 - government force in accordance with the opinion of the Lord Reichsprotektor and the Lord Secretary of State. The task of the government force is according to 2 decree of the leader and Chancellor of the Reich of l6.3.39. the maintenance of the peace and order in the protectorate, if it cannot be ensured by gendarmerie and police alone. The government force is thus the last power factor of the protectorate government. Mmmm During the war, the government-PershepaMand troop is also assigned tasks in the service of the German Wehrmacht: railway protection, direction and care of German army horses and work on troop training stations. Finally, the government force is used in emergencies such as ice and flood emergencies, catastrophs of greater impact, etc. 3.) I think it is wrong to immediately put the government troops to a lower d d d without compelling necessity, just because it is convenient to have an immediately operational, disciplined mass available. I do not want to create a misunderstanding among the administrative authorities as to whether the government force of the Wehrmacht would be regarded as too valuable for the use in emergency situations.