STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2754, sig. 109-14/57

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28 -16- 1938 Guide returns to the city. In the forest above the Grandhotel Pupp, a powerful swastika of hundreds of light bulbs and a torchlight procession of the for mations and the frontman decided the happiest day of his history for Karlsbad. In the evening, the city was immersed in a sea of light, candles lit out of all the windows and offered a magnificent image. In the late evening, lenght colons of flack artillery moved into the city. All parts of the city took up their activities. From the dam and bridges, the explosive charges that the Czechs had placed there were removed. October 1938 Ministerial Councillor Dr. Harald Turner takes over the civilian administration at the Army Group IV in Karlovy Vary. Over-government Councillor of Born-Fallois is appointed district captain. In the city reigns the most colorful life. berali denounce magnificent guide pictures. The Jewish business is closed and their company boards are removed. 6. October Rail traffic is resumed. 8 October Prime Minister Generalfeldmarschall Hermann Göring, accompanied by K.H.Frank, arrives in Karlovy Vary and spoke from the balcony of the Stadttheathr to the besistered population. 9 October First WHW outfeed in the Sprudelhalle. October Kam. R. Rusy is appointed mayor of Karlovy Vary by the head of the civil administration. On the night of October on the occasion of the end of the occupation of the Sudetenland by the Wehrmacht on all mountains high-altitude fires are lit and victory sounds are organized. 11 October The new mayor Richard Rusy and his deputy in the Sparkassen meeting room will take office. 12 October Numerous squares and streets of the city will be renamed. The head of the foreign organisation of the NSDAP Gauleiter Bohle negotiates the integration of the SdP into the N SDAP with the Karlovy Vary district management. 13.0Ctober The commander-in-chief of the army, General Oberst von Brauchitsch, arrives in Karlovy Vary. Grasse troop parade at half past nine o'clock at Adolf Hitlerplatz. 15 October The entire educatorship of the district of Karlovie Vary performs in the lrhause fishing on the national socialist world view.