English Translation

Taus, 27/02.1945. To the German Minister of State Department of Transport and Technology in P_r_a_g_. Subject : Threat to the train in Taus on 24/02.145 91152 /: RADTransport 165260/61/62 :/. Train 91l52 arrived on Saturday 24/02.45 at 2l.3l o'clock in Taus on the seventh track.The transport itself was transferred to Pilsen by order of the L office and the OZL, because it was transferred by the OzL. On 25/02.45 approximately at 8 o'clock came to the driving service manager BA.Burda Ant. an officer of this transport /: Presumably a fieldmaster :/ and inquired about the air position and the air shelters in the Bf.Taus.BA.Burda showed him the air protection rooms in the train station with boards.In addition Burda informed him about the atmosphere in Tats and said: In recent times, bombers and low-flyers were circling in the Taus area and were firing on the train.The officer then immediately, in agreement with flight manager Burda, placed a report post in front of the operations office.Then the officer visited the air raiders.During the previous hours, he asked several times about the air situation. At ll.30 a.m., Burda and this officer agreed that the women and children who were in the course of the flight would go to the air traffic control room in the station building and the RAD men to the trenches opposite the station; and that, after all the passengers had left, the rwxgenxngx empty car train would be pushed on the track.At ll.40 a. m. Burda heard that he was on the train. Station squares stood,a moaning,iassx which was probably located near Bombab@fen in the direction from the south.Danufhimn gave the Burda to the locomotive station in Taus the order to put the locomotive intended for the sliding service on the parked train, which was then carried out immediately /: approximately 12.10 o'clock :/. At 12.29 p.m., a threat of entry was reported to bomb groups.Burda immediately notified the reporting post of the danger of entry, with the remark that all persons in the course may go to the air shelters, as previously agreed.The reporting post transferred Burda's instructions to the fieldmaster.At 12.43 p. m., air alarms were announced. In the meantime, the siren-gathered pilot alarm sounded from the city of Taus. Meanwhile, the station manager BOI.Bosák František and the driving service manager Burda Ant. noted how the travelling women and children in the arranged air shelter in the railway stations and also part of the When Burda saw that most of the RAD men remained in the train, he went to the train and again measured the transport commander designated by the guard from the aircraft alarm and the agreed exit of the entire crew from the train with the remark that the train had to be pushed out of the track. Transpo commander, however, gave a loud command /: "All boarding, we drive with the train on the route":/ Burda wanted to loosen the station somewhat by pushing this set of cars, since 53 passenger cars were still standing in the station itself and a ammunition train was pre-registered by Furth i.W. The locomotive crew Hartl