STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1639, sig. 109-4/1394 (damaged)

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2/ - 5 - These findings must be seen as clear proof of the criminal and economicly unsustainable conduct of a large part of the cereal-growing sector of the Protectorate and of the unreliability of the protectorate control bodies established in the course of the cereals control operation. In more extreme cases, I immediately led criminal investigation proceedings against accused cereal growers. Altogether, 40 persons were transferred to the German local courts for arrest warrants by the services of the German Criminal Police in the period from l.l2. to 22. 12.1942, of which in Bohemia 26, in Moravia 14,. Their judgment by the Special Courts will be speeded up after consultation with the Justice Group at the Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia. In order to harden the findings made by the "Fliegenden Kommando" in Bohemia, I had a photographic portfolio prepared, which I attach to the report with the request for acceptance. Gwim