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The Commander of Security Police IV and SD Prague, 15.2.1943 XIX, Kaßanienallee 19 III - SA 75 Tgb. Nr. B. D. S. Please indicate the trade mark and date provided for in the reply. To the Wehrmacht authorised representative at the Imperial Protector in Bohemia and Moravia and Commander in the Military District Bohemia and Mähren, Mr. Lieutenant General T o u s s a n t, Prague XIX. Place of the Weir Night. Betr.: Alsatian and Luxembourgian as Defaitists. The following message was received: In January 1943, new recruits were assigned to the Wehrmacht site in Laun (North Bohemia) (Grenadier Training Battalion 213) Among these were also a group of around 20 recruits from Alsace or Luxembourg, who only spoke French because they could not speak German, and obviously showed their aversion to German military service. Already in the first days of his stay in Laun, one of these recruits wrote in his post that "the people here (which he means the Czechs) are as oppressed as his natives". During the training, two of these recruitments are allegedly deserted, which have not yet been recovered. Two others refused to take the oath and declared that they would not be able to reconcile the oath with their attitude. Only after the commander's corresponding speaking did they finally allow themselves to be sworn. Within the Czech population of Laun, these facts became known and are the subject of many discussions, which in the course of the current mood were regarded as dissolution decisions of the German Wehrnacht. b.w.