English Translation

The commander of the security police and the SD Prague, August 1943 XIX, Kastanienallee 19 telex 70615, 70465 II A 1 - 522/43 gb. No. B. d. S. in reply to the above mentioned business sign and data. To the Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia - Department VIlI- in Prague. Subject: Preventive measures to combat fires from locomotives. Installations: 1 light break. In the area of railway lines in the country of Bohemia, according to a communication from the German criminal police, the number of wagons, forest, field and other fires is much higher than in the state of Moravia. Here, the numbers of such fires are roughly equal to the pre-war level. Thus, according to the reports available here in Bohemia in the months January to May 1943 138 wagons and d erd dt a fact became conspicuous that goods trains, which had driven through the country Moravia without damage, often caught fire after the transition to Bohemia, If one also takes into account that the goods are not as dense as in Bohemian SetS r, the number of fires occurring in Bohemia is far too high. The investigations have shown that precautionary arson or sabotage is hardly possible, but that it is almost entirely a spark flight from the locomotive which is the cause of the fire. A partial explanation of the varying levels of fire is likely to be provided by the use of various types of coal (in Moravia, mainly coal, in Bohemian Brüxer lignite). The previous (takes to the gross spark flight did not have the expected gross gexetgc anoTie lacks an adequate setaivettostu inkenfangvorrichtung) bel ainem Grofvefl td yeresndu swehende Loko- notifen. AS4-32 455