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

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7 Losses, accidents, sick persons. Losses: 3 Poles by illness Accidents: 5 Sick persons: 159 Poles 5. Province of East Prussia (former Polish territories). In addition to the widespread police operation, the blackout measures were examined and an intensive fight against smuggling was carried out. In the district of Ostenburg, 1880 smugglers were arrested and another 37o persons were sent to a labour camp for smuggling, while around 500 Poles were transferred to smuggling in the county of Plöden. The Gestapo were made available to carry out measures against Jews in Neuhof and Zichenau Commandos of the Ordnungspolizei. 29l Jews and smuggler's property were secured. Units of the Res.Pol.-Batl. ll and 13 were used on several days for evacuations on a small scale in the Krei- sen Mielau and Ostenburg. In cooperation between Gendarmerie and Gestapo, five members of the Polish resistance movement were arrested. For the mental care of the Pol.-Wachtmeister fan- den apart from the world-wide training at the Res.Pol.- Batl. 1l and 13 a KdF.-event and film screenings by the front bookshop took place. Losses, accidents, sick. Loss, accidents: None. Sick: 45 pol.-Wachtm. hm Distributor: