English Translation

THE CHAIRMAN OF THE ORDER POLICIES AT THE PRAG XIX PROTECTOR, 22 July 1943. IN BÖHMEN AND MÄHREN General-Roettig-Strasse 14. Fernruf : Fernamt Reichsprotektor Prag Local call : Sammlung-Nr. Prag 77355 und 77551 Side connection number To the Higher 4 and Police leader at the Reichsprotector in Bohemia and Moravia, Prag IV. Blen Fæichep orekos in Bohemia uno Mähven. Czernin-Palais. Eing.: 24. JULY 1943 The order-shober-der-. Betr.: New uniform of the protectorate police. G. of the SD regarding: Oral instruction of 19.7.43. 2 8. VII. 1943 BSS fBBN In accordance with the order given to me at my lecture on 19.7. I will then present a report on the reuniformation of the Protectorate police 1.) Origin of the process. The change of uniforms of the uniformed protectorate police was initiated for the first time in l94l by the protectorate's police by their liaison officer. The then liaison officer, police lieutenant Missbach, båt s.Zt. to introduce armpits for the uniformed government police and uniformed police according to the pattern of armpit pieces of the protective gendarmerie. He designed different patterns and presented them to the BdO for decision. The BdO presented the case to the Higher 4 and Police Leader, 4-Upper Group Leader State Secretary K.H.Frank, and the Deputy Reich Protector, 4-upper Group Chief and General of Police Heydrich. The Higher J- and Police Chief and the Stellv. Reichsprotektor agreed in principle with the introduction of armpits, but considered it expedient to introduce the armpites immediately after the pattern of the Reichsdeutsche police, but with another cloth backing. (At the same time, the presentation of a black armband with the inscription "German police" was discussed.) Some uniforms were then given the new - 2 - St. V1 B-16b/43 115