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- 1 - GEHEIM copy -fidy Wall.-Klobouk,den 2.4.1945 X 81 .Opinion de eeeid ofrov On 2.4.45 the passenger train 703 took the railway line M.Weißkirchen towards Wall.Meseritsch . About 1 km west of the Speitsch station at km 9.5, it was taken to the derailment by a mine stop at 4.35 am. The locomotive and 5 wagons, of which 2 were betted, were thrown out of the rails, the rail line was destroyed in a length of 120 m. Two railway staff and a postal officer were partially seriously injured. On the track to the north, traffic could be maintained on a single track. According to the construction crew leader, traffic can be resumed on 2.4.45 at 19.00 o'clock. The hunting train in Wall.Meseritsch, which arrived at the stop, found a wire at the end of which lay at the place of explosion, which had passed under the northern track and led to a hill in immediatly close proximity, from which apparently the bandits by means of the electric wire (double) brought the mine in the eye bliok of passing the train to inflammation The found wire was secured by the hunt train. The route was made by a patrol - strength 2 men - between 3,oo and 7,oo o'clock.Although in a recently issued order I had expressly ordered a reinforcement of the night stripes of at least 3 men, the above patrol was occupied by only 2 men despite sufficient guard strength. The opposite of this statement was expressed by the Volkssturmmann Koldt as a guide in his interrogation. As a result of the darkness, which had significantly affected his already very bad visual acuity, Koldt could only have walked very slowly,with He tried to justify the short distance of 3 km in ly2 hours. If the patrol had kept the normal speed and if it had been set in the ordered strength, the attack could have been thwarted under certain circumstances. e.g. Jahn Hauptmann d.Sch.u.Komp.-Chef Pol.-Wach-Btl.Mähren Holleschau, the 4,4.1945 - Ia 50 30 - handed over to the & Inspector for Sträkensicherung in Moravian Major Ahlers with the request for information. I cannot agree with the decision of the company chief of the 2nd Wachkompanie on all points.It is not to be forgotten that the people's stormmen have the best will to do their best, but the peculiarity of this object protection is still unknown to most and places unexpected demands on each and every one of them. The attacks on the moving trains as well as +