GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 476, sig. 110-4324

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Inlste The Inspector of the Higher 4- and Pol.-Leader for Bohemia and Moravia for road safety 14. MRZ. 1945 in Moravia Olmütz, 13 March 1945 GEHEIMI! Betr.: Activity report for the period from 4.3.45 to 13.3.45 Tgb.No.17/45 go. To the Higher 4 and Police-Leiter für Böhmen und Mähren, 4 Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-4 und Polizei K.H. F ran k, P ra g Czernin-Palais On the 5th of March 1945 On March 5, 1945, it was announced by telephone that 4 Ostubaf. Lönholdt was transferred to the i7. 4 Pz.-Gren. division "Götz von Berlichingen" with immediate effect as Rgts.-Kdr.. 4 Ostubaf. Lonholdt handed over the business of the inspector S.S. M. to me on March 6, 1945 and appointed me as his representative until the arrival of the new inspector. by FS: from K.d.O. Moravia, Abbot Ia informed that the forces used by Pol.-Rgt. 8 to secure the route on the route Mähr.Weißkirchen - Wlava-Paß would be pulled here for other use until 7.3.45. To replace these forces, the 2./Volkssturm-Btl. 33 Falkenau was used. 33 Falkenau was previously at the disposal of the inspector S.S.M. in Olomouc as an operational reserve, so that he no longer has any reserves. I personally contacted the relevant services located nearby. Further connection to distant services was not possible, since I had no equipment available for this purpose. For the same reason, it was also not possible to record a personal inspection of the secured routes and a contact with the guides of the safety forces used.Special incidents: On the railway station Wilkosch on the line Prerau - Ung.Hradisch 3 O-cars were set on fire during the reporting period by spark flight of passing locomotives. A wagon loaded with ammo could be extinguished. A second wagon, loaded with ammunition and powder, burned out completely. The third wagon, laden with textile materialim, was extinguished; however, it was not to be avoided that about l5o kg of textile material burned. On 8.3.45 a man of the Volkssturm-Btl. 33 Falkenau in the execution of his service the guard Laski on the line Wall. Mereritsch Jablonka captured by a locomotive and seriously injured. He died on the same day. On 9.3.45 two men of the Volkssturm-Btl. 33 Falknau were shot at by unknown perpetrators in the exercise of their service. A man was mortally wounded by headshot, while the second man of patrol 2/.