STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2750, sig. 109-14/53

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232 - 2 - and the German successes were more than questioned by the enormous losses on the German side.It is pointed out that the Slovak units had also suffered particularly large losses in the last fights. The following report was also given in Slovak language: "g days have passed since the assassination of the executioner Heydrich, for 5 days the German police have been feverishly trying to track down the assassins. However, all efforts have remained unsuccessful to this day. No traitor from the ranks of the Czech people, the Háchas denunciant wage of the millions of cro- nies and the equally high reward issued by the German side, would have been willing to guite. In these 5 days, inagesant lil Czechs, men, women and children lost their lives. Despite all these terrorist atrocities, the Germans continue to be without the slightest trace of the assassins. There is no Czech who would commit cowardly betrayal. Fearless, they go to death and are an example of all the men and women of the nation who might still need it. However, there are very few of them today. As the German Gestapo reports today, the information work by the Czech people is being far and away scourged, the false reports and misconducts are accumulating, but still today the Prague radio has announced that the search work has already made pleasing progress through the active cooperation of the Czech People, which is why the Czechs are being asked to give themselves the most accurate information possible, to look again at the corpora delicti presented at Venzelsplatz. Heydrich's condition is still extremely serious. He has already had to undergo surgery twice. First of all, Prof. Sauerbruch, the body physician Hitlers, removed three bullets from the Virbel column. He should now be partially paralyzed more consciously."