NĚMECKÉ STÁTNÍ MINISTERSTVO PRO ČECHY A MORAVU, PRAHA (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 109, sig. 110-3/49 Page 83 · 83 of 113
THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 109, sig. 110-3/49
English Translation
64 Schanz Einsatz bei der Gauleitung Niederdonau. 1.) Convening by the employment offices: The convening and handing over of the Schanzarbeiter took place without incident, at the stations the transports were handed over to the leaders of the board of trustees. The mood was relatively good and continued throughout the journey. Right at the beginning we were able to find two circumstances that caused quite a lot of discontent. a) The ski jumpers were brought together without medical supervision. Covinh search and we had to send 250 men back home on the first day, because there were very crippled and severely ill people underneath. (b) Generally, people complained that the convocation was unjustly handled by the mayors, and that the rich peasant sons were generally left at home, and servants and workers were sent to work. These cases are checked by us and it is refunded. Sh an mld mon Melhulpn 2.) Transport: The journey went without major incidents. The trains had Blok, as was supposed before, almost a delay of at least 12 hours, so that all transports arrived instead of in the morning hours at night. It was therefore very difficult to bring the crew from the station to their destination in the dark and rain. People had carried uncanny kengens of food with them, as they apparently assumed that they could not get anything to eat down. With this heavy luggage we sometimes had to take them 5 km on completely