English Translation

Copy. GEEEM F e r n s c h r e i b e n LVM Brno PS No. 58 29.l.1945 19.50 To the Ministry of the Interior - RAV by Mr. Min.Council Dr. Frhr.v. W a t e r in P r a g . , Subject: Position construction. On 27.I.45 the 540th Division informed that all locations east of the line Krems/Donau, Boskowitz, Moravian Trübau with road barriers and armored trenches should be secured. The German Minister of State for Bohemia and Moravia responsible for the construction of positions in Moravia gave the Division that the site's elders were directly in contact with the district governors through the state authority. On 27 January 1945, the President of the State gave the following instructions to the district headmen in Wischau, Brno-Land /also for the location Seelowitz/, Pross 6 nitz, Krensier, Littau, Ung.-Hradisch, Göding, UnG.-Brod / also for the locations Slavitschin and Bojkowitz/ Wsetin and Prerau: In order to be located ............, the 54o. Division I A Roadblocks and Panzergraben will be built without delay. For this purpose, civilian population will be recruited. In this case, site elders will contact you immediately in order to initiate appropriate measures together with you. They are hereby authorized to carry out the necessary measures immediately and within their own scope of action. On the same day, on the basis of the orders given by the same district governors, I gave the following remote instructions: In addition, no telephone call of 27.I.45 is ordered: when the ski jumping forces are used,