English Translation

32 Security Service RF4 Prag=Bubentich 10. 10. 1941. SD-Leitabfchnitt Prag Sachfenweg Ferniprecher 77444 B 4 VA 405 1. An -Obergruppenführer H e y d r i c h - 2. To the Secretary of State at the Reichsprotektor in Böhnen and Moravia x/2f -Group leader K. H. F a n k PraE Betr.: d Vorg. Excl. On the basis of the most recent reports received here, the government force has the following picture: The government force currently has a C d c C status of 239 military officers, 3ll civilian workers and a number of female auxiliary staff. The highest authority is a general inspector with two deputies in Prague, the three inspectorates in Prague , Königgrätz and Brno , as well as twelve battalions. The relatively high number of the generals is striking; eight troop generals face three generals of the auxiliary service (inten- dant, doctor and auditor). The unreliable, largely anti-German attitude of the government force, especially of its officer corps, has above all its basis in the inconsistent political orientation of the officers. In addition to officers who entered the army of the former Czechoslovak Republic and who had gone through school only, those who entered in the Austrian army 1 9l6 play an essential role -2- St. S. V4a41