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

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- 5 - 88 years of the reporting period, 9 steamer transports with 4 704 returned Estonian and Latvian Germans were handled at the overseas railway station Gotenhafen and their passports passed through; with l4 rail transports and 3 treks, 6 420 returned Lithuanian Germans arrived and were transferred by the police to the responsible countries. Out of 5 damage cases erupted during the reporting period, one is due to intentional arson. The perpetrator is investigated. In three fires, negligence was found as bramdura and in the last case a defective chimney was found. In Strasbourg, the Reichsbahn, which had travelled from Gdańsk, had to be brought in against railway entertainers because they refused to work and thus gave the Poles a bad example. Losses, accidents, sick: Losses: No accidents: 1 Sick: 169. 3. Reichsgau Wartheland. In addition to the general police service, the men of the order police were also used in the case of evacuations, the monitoring of the ghettos, controls on unrepentant food exports, the fight against smuggling and black-slaughtering, passport and lock-out hours checks and controls on the premises prohibited for Poland. From 13.2. - 12.3.194l, 3 377 Polish families were evacuated in the district districts of Poznan and Litzmannstadt. Jn Litzmanstadt were relocated to 900 Jews in the same period. So far 268 517 Poles have been evacuated and about 170 000 Baltic Germans, Germans