STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 709, sig. 109-4458 (damaged)

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n - 2 In subobject 15, 23l.388 detonators were stored, in subobject 6 695,653 fuses, which were completely destroyed during the explosion. The remaining subobjects as well as l0 of the object 32 adjacent objects were damaged so severely that they were completely damaged for production. Furthermore, a large number of window panes from further distant objects were destroyed. In the object 32, in the various subobjects' ignition sets (nall mercury, lead acid, etc., which are needed for the production of the detonators, are mixed and dried and then filled and pressed into the decompression capsules in the adjacent objects. The finished detonators then go back to the object 32 and are stored in the sub-object 15 of the object so long until they come to other neighboring objects for revision and packaging. After the delay, the detonation encapsule supplies are stored into the bunker estObfect 33. Apart from the intermediate storage facility for detonators in the subobject l5, there is also an intermediate storage centre for ignition hats and spr encapsules in the partobject 6. Only a few workers are employed in the Objek, who operate the mixing machines only for hours, because they carry out the mixtures only in the numerically limited orders.The workers who are employed there are considered to be extremely thorough in order to prevent them from bringing with them the necessary conditions of rest and safety at their dangerous hand. The explosion may have the following cause: (a) sabotage, (b) self-inflammation, (c) fault of the warehousing manager of the Zwisch camp for detonators.