STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1504, sig. 109-4/1258 (damaged)

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4 From 30.ll. onwards all the seconded bodies were involved in the controls. In Groupa of 2 Maan the necessary findings were made of them in the manner described above. Apart from minor changes, the control plans drawn up by the district authorities were carried out. III. "Flying Command": a) Tasks: As the leader of the command, I took up my task as follows: l. to monitor and assess the activities of the appointed control bodies, 2. to control the organs if necessary, 3. In my experience, to give the German Criminal Police Offices in Bohemia additional instructions to carry out immediate measures of a local nature under their own responsibility and direction. b) Activity: The activity of the "Pugden Kommando" in the first week was deliberately limited to monitoring the activities of the organs themselves, or to having them transferred by the foreign offices of the German Criminal Police. It was found that the organs I controlled were only in the fewest cases dutiful and prudent. Most of the time, they left it out of their own initiative. It could also be determined that control groups began their service in the local authorities assigned to them with several hours delay, then controlled only one property, - instruction of the Min. In the interior it was necessary to check 2 farmers daily - and then to remove this practice with revision and too heavy work load. Although it was further prescribed that each group had to search their farm in detail, I did not find one when searching the farm.