STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1789, sig. 109-5/17

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14a - 4 - 3.) Reichsgau Wartheland. Apart from the implementation of the security and order service, all units of the police were mainly active in the fight against the smuggling trade, the detection of unemployed Poles, the persecution of criminals and the traffic surveillance for the transit of Wehrmacht parts. In the fight against criminals, 9 Poles were shot for resistance or attempted escape, and 3 Poles sentenced to death for sugar smuggling were hanged. The destruction of some notorious criminals in the Lask and Welungen districts has contributed significantly to a calming of the territory at the border of the province. In the constitutions of unemployed Poles carried out for the employment offices, some 4,500 persons were transferred to them from 16 May to 15 June for employment in the Old Reich. In large numbers, Poland, which had left the jobs allocated to it on its own initiative, was taken up and handed over to the employment offices. During the reference period, 44030 eggs, 76ll kg meat, 167 kg butter, 4253 kg sugar, l600 l kg flour, 5065 kg cereals, 149 kg leather, 25 kg bacon, 4000 maggi cubes, 49 pcs, poultry, 4 pigs, 9 piglets and 286 pairs of women's stockings and socks were confiscated. In the apartment of an evacuated Jew in Leslau were found and secured in a walled room for 3500 RM textiles. In the Reg. district of Litzmannstadt 2 Poles, who were employed at the station Welungen, were arrested because of the displacement of lo Waggon's sugar, which they had declared salt, and 53 smugglers. In Reg.- 64789