STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2540, sig. 109-12/187 Page 66 · 66 of 104
A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2540, sig. 109-12/187
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53 17 were given the task of listening to and spying on the prisoners. Also in the prisons this listening and monitoring system was continued by criminal criminals, which gave the guards the opportunity to intervene on the basis of provoked arrests. Usually there are rubber bats, kicks and disciplinary punishments, with which the Czech post-justice was able to deal freely in all prisons shhr. Picture 19 : Woe to the one behind which the iron doors of "Pankrac" had closed! Long-term prison sentences, if not life-long heavy dungeons were certain to him. At least, if not even evidence of a combination of espionage could be constructed, he had to reckon with a multi-monamental, annoying detention. Figure 20 : The weeks and months of painful waits were hopeless. Could the investigating prisoner build on a justice of the courts, where high officials had abused and tortured him most personally? Where he had been subjected to stress-sedikes at the police and gendarmerie stations and pressed him afterwards to sign protocols and "confessions"? And then even the treatment in the detention centres! The guards were given a free letter from above to leave out their courage to defenseless German prisoners who, according to their primitive way of thinking, were consistently criminals and endangered their bread. Figure 21 : One day went by like the other. The high-altitude fenster did not allow a view and through the guckhole brought into the door the guard could only look in from the outside. In the corner of the small cell there was an abort bucket, which at no cost the sparse air in the narrow space. At the entrance of the darkness the electric light was ignited in each cell, which remained switched on throughout the night. Figure 22 : Our investigative prisoners were allowed to keep their civilian clothes, but, unlike the criminal