STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2748, sig. 109-14/51 (damaged)

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1a -2 - which could start their journey after the announcement of the person to be admitted, was not possible to get through the barrier. As a further consequence, the trains at the railway stations, which were ready for departure for hours, entered a complete constraint of the railway tracks and a backlog on the lines. The railway stations Holleschowitz, Dewitz and Werschowitz were not even closed at l6 o'clock. In the morning hours of 28.5. there were again significant stagnations in train traffic, which were largely due to the uneven execution of the control and shut-off measures by the Czech police. Although it was possible almost everywhere at the stations to sharply separate the coming travellers from the departing travellers, so that eine could be carried out proper control of all persons, at some stations the control bodies of the acquisition of the professional trains, which waited to the tell for hours before Prague, did not agree to the Prague stations, apart from the significant disturbances in the factories due to late arrival of the staff, above all disturbances were to be feared in the safe supply of the big city with miles and other easily perishable means of life, which are transported with the passenger transport. The following examples show that no clear instructions were given by the police direction: On 28.5. in the period 6 to 9 o'clock even Wehrmacht members in Uniforn were temporarily not admitted to transport at the main station because there was allegedly a corresponding order from the police department in Prague. At this time, armament workers, bisenbahn and post office operators as well as schoolchildren up to the age of 18 were admitted on other railway tracks. A uniform check of passengers at all stations was never carried out at all, while the main station was completely closed and the passengers in the waiting room were checked for their personal details at about 8 a.m., the Hiberner station was already free of passengers detained at 6.30 a. m. On the other hand, no travellers were admitted to the Rahrt in the Hibernerbahnhof from about 8.30 to 10.00 o'clock, so that several Zü 11806