STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 411, sig. 109-4/156

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4 Prague, 16 November 1941. 16 Nov. 1941 1.) FS : Cafood ang dew bioel. / 1820 e Boe 3 S JR y.d. = An dre wO Stapoleitstelle Brünn, ju Jandee bns b4 O'vdihad. marille o. &i.. Brno. nedame Rov NDOSO On the death of the president of the state M e z n i k, the chairman of the protectorate government was held as follows : "Dear Minister ! Dr. Jaroslav M e z n i k, the state president of Böhmen, who was arrested by the German state police under suspicion of anti-rich activity and conspiracy with illegal resistance groups, put an end to his life by suicide in the police prison Kaunitzkolleg in Brno on 14.11.1991, after 10 a.m. I ask you to take this fact to Kemtnis and to inform your government about it. You can see the circumstances surrounding the course of the suicide from the supplement. The relatives of the deceased were informed by the state police station in Brno. The urn with the ashes was handed to them. The addition of the urn has to be done only in the smallest family circle in silence. With the expression of excellent respect supplement: 0... and. Excerpt from the interrogation protocols : Dr. M e z n i k was accommodated in solitary confinement at the Kaunitzkolleg in Brno. All guard crews had received the special instruction, Meznik in the framework of the best