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

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- 4 - Explosion trap the possibility because a total of 80,000 detonators with copper casings and lead-acid filling are stored in the intermediate camp 32/15. In the future, the production of these detonation capsules should be omitted, because the plant was allegedly instructed to use only aluminium casings. For c): From here a fault of the camp manager of the intermediate camp for detonators 32/15 is assumed as a primal search of the explosion. According to the witnesses of the crime scene and the experts of the plant, the explosion must have taken place in the intermediate camp for detonators, sub-object l5, and the interim camp for ignition hats, part-object 6, directly carried away.The camp administrator Josef H o v o r k a, 28.6.1915 born in Borenice, protectorate member, Roman-kath., married, residing in Polanka, Bez. At the moment of the explosion, Vlashim, 1 child, must have been at the entrance of the sub-object l5, which is to be concluded from the burnt and rotted meat remains found on the opposite wall. The camp manager had the task of taking over the capsules coming from the production and bringing them back to the packaging. So Zhm always had to fill the boxes (about 50 x 50 cm) with capsules, to the individual working places and to be carried back. Since he had talked with packerims five minutes before the explosion, he probably went directly to his intermediate storage and picked up capsules there. There is the possibility that a box could be sent to him by careless care.