STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1831, sig. 109-5/59 (damaged)

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Copy. Berlin, 10 March 1942 Deutsche Reichsbahn VV Railway departments of the Reichsverkehrsministerium. L 2 g/Bmbuf 3 Gehehu! To the railway officers of the Reichsbahndirektionen, to the railway representatives of the General Directorate of the East Railways in Krakow, to Zreigstelle Osten des RVM in Warsaw, to those of the Generalbetriebsleitungen Ost, Düs and West - especially to the defence of sabotage; check of luggage, hand luggage and express goods. Recently, various sabotage files have been attempted by storing luggage with built-in time-ignition units at the baggage inspection points of the Reichsbahn. This should cause fires of the explosions. In order to counteract this, it is ordered that: (a) measures to deter: at the reception points of the baggage and express goods delivery points and at the dog luggage storage points, printed posters shall be affixed in a visible place with the following contents: "Notice of suppliers of luggage, express goods and parcels shall be required to open the items intended for transport or storage at the request of the surveillance bodies for checking the contents. Reichsbahndirektion ......." b) Review of the pieces: At the acceptance points of the B.hnhöfe Munich Hbf, Berchtesgaden, Nuremberg, Vienna, Dresden, Bayreuth and Salzburg (at the last two during the Festival