STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 661, sig. 109-4/409

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1a the defense station Prague, e.g. of Mr. Lieutenant Colonel von Engelmann - or representative in the office - Pr a g, place of the Wehrmacht. aülodel the secret state police, szdäM state police station Brno, Sp@ z.Hd. of -Obersturmbannführer Nölle - or representatives in the Office - B n n. Subject: Former Czech captain Wenzel M o r a v e k, born on 8.8.i9o4 in Kolin. Process: My early reports. Attachments: Without. On 21.3.1942, officials of my division III overtook the so far known start-up and post offices of the former staff captain M or r a v e k, the head of the British-Czech spy group and the sabotage organizations of the illegal Czech resistance movement, after attempts to reach Mor a ve k via a middle person had failed. The questioning of some of the arrests in these trials revealed that an officer of the M o r a v e k would appear at about 7 p.m. on 21 March 19942 in a park on the outskirts of Prague. Some officials occupied this park just before 9 p. m. in order to arrest the officer and thus approach M o ro v ek. The commissioner was arrested at 1 9.lo o'clock after breaking significant resistance, with 13271 Nu