THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 248, sig. 110-4/94

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62 Reports of the Reichsbahn group: 23/L 1. On 23 February, 0.18 o'clock, on the route Kolin - Deutsch-Brod between the stations Wilkanetsch - Leschkina the freight train 6457 was attacked by an enemy aircraft with on-board weapons. Zug lok slightly damaged, still operational. The locomotive driver slightly wounded, but remained in service. Otherwise no damage. 2. On 22.2., 21.24 o'clock, at Blohwitz station, line Pilsen - Budweis, the passenger train in the station 425 was attacked by an enemy aircraft with bombs. 3 small bombs exploded, several unexploded went down about 300 m from the railway facilities. After the bomb was dropped, the train was still shot with onboard weapons. No damage to the railway systems. Operation undisturbed. 3. Around midnight, from 22nd to 23rd February, in km 249.3 km between the stations of Swietla - Leschkina of the line Kolin - Deutsch-Brod, the router found an explosive device attached to a track. When the explosive device was removed, it was stopped by six bandits, one of them in gendarmerie uniform. The bandits again fixed the explosive device and removed again with the help of the walker. After a while 23,5195 they returned to the scene of the crime, left the tracker free and opened the cocks on a parked boiler car. The 41 perpetrators spoke broken Czech. Damage on the track cannot be detected. 23.2.1945. Seluidt F \C-62/4q