Germany's MINISTRY for Chechnya and Moravia, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 505, sig. 110-4/353

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g1 St.M. IV L - 4O b/44g Prague, 28 September 1944. 28 1X 44 13 05 W Secret FS. 40037 KR-FS: Secret! With G-Remote writer! To Mr. Reichsleiter v.Schirach, Vienna. Dear party comrade v. Schirach ! The situation in the Protectorate has changed fundamentally by the development of the front in the Beskydy section and the gang activity in Slovakia. It is in the area of the possibility that Moravia will become an operational area. In addition, the protectorate has now also been included in the hostile air activity. In addition, it is likely that the call of the enemy powers to the foreign workers employed in the rest of the empire to revolt and sabotage, as you know, will reinforce the tendency in the Czech population to instigate an uprising. Under these circumstances, it will not be possible to avoid clearing Moravia in full of KLV camps, but in Bohemia, gradually reducing the strength of the camps to l0.ooo boys and girls. I am also forced to do this because in Moravia, the hospital has to be converted into a field hospital and, consequently, about l5.00o wounded have to be accommodated in Bohemia. I regret this development.