THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 376, sig. 110-4222

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0m/0h)/on) H. Pol. P. IV F - 46'c/44g. Prague, 17 October 1944. 19.40 Secret KR-FS: To 4 Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-4i Berger Chef des 4-Hauptamts Berlin 80 Betr.: Unterstellt der Kommandeure des POWs under the orders of the Higher I and Police Leaders. Introduction: There. Telex from 14.l0.d.Js. - No. 00283-00301. 1.) There are no war camps in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. As a result, nothing is reported by me in the sense of the 4th letter cited above. 2.) In the Reichsgau Sudetenland there are only detached labor commandos of prisoners of war camps, whose commanders are under the responsibility of the higher 4j and police leaders in Breslau, Dresden or Nuremberg, depending on the Wehrkreis. I assume that the competence of the above-mentioned high 4 and police commanders extends to these labor commandories. I would be grateful if my view were confirmed as being too apt and if a corresponding message were given to the Higher Chiefs of the H and Police. Here it should be suggested that in my capacity as Higher 4 and Police Leader in the Reichsgau Sudetenland M.M-1-F-h6/4gtos