English Translation

The Head of Transport and Prague, 31 May 1942. Gruope Railways III/1 - 31 V 7 - 300/01 Betr: Disaster measures at the BMB on the occasion of the assassination of the Lord Deputy Reich Protector The measures taken on the grounds of the attack on the Lord's Deputy Reich protector on 27/5.l942. The Gestapo had first given the order to shut down all the bannhofs of the Grand-Prague for travel and not to let off trains occupied by travellers from Prague. Czech police forces, partly in Uniforn, and partly in civil, were used for the closure of the stations. The closure was carried out in the stations Prague Hbf and Prague Moldovan Railway Station at the entrance gates to the reception hall, in the Bf Prague Hibbf at the platforms. Despite the clear instructions of the Gestapo to immediately stop all travel from Prague, the closure was handled very differently by the techech police at the individual stations, while on 27 July the police station was closed. In May, shortly after 1-4 a.m., the Prague Central Station and the Moldovan Railway Station were already blocked by police forces, the passengers on the railway station were able to reach the trains at the platforms without any control, because no police forces had yet arrived. This led to the fact that the trains provided were very quickly fully occupied. They had to be parked on side tracks, the platform tracks for the arriving trains were to be used. If the empty trains had been shut down in time, the empty ones could have been left to serve for travel outside the Grand-Prague, now the already full trains had to have been cleared and the passengers had to to be sent back to the reception hall for inspection by the barrier. The result was a serious constipation of this hall, that there were later many travelers, I-2/40 /*