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

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18a - 6 - 1 Volksdeutsche und Wolhyniendeutsche were settled. For the guarding of the ghetto in Litzmannstadt a Pol. Batl. is completely used. Two cases had to be made use of there of the gun. Because of continued goods smuggling after against from the ghetto 5 Jews, 1 Polish and 1 auxiliary police were arrested. In the course of the investigations, several persons who contributed to the sale of textile and gold goods from the ghetto could also be identified. In the persecution of criminals, two people were arrested in Poznan using firearms in 2nd cases. Jn Ostrowo was a violent criminal, in Zychlin a former Polish prisoner of war was shot on the run and in the district of Dietfurt a wanted criminal was seriously injured. Jm Kreis Yarotshin were arrested by a gang that carried out railway thefts and robberies of a larger style, the leader and 4 criminals. In the district of Kempen the arrest of a band of robbers from Wielun was also carried out. This five-member gang carried out two raids on one night, during which things and cash were stolen in the value of 1,600.-RM. During a check-up in Litzmannstadt a people's German railway employee was shot, presumably by intruders. With a belly and thigh shot, the seriously injured was delivered to a hospital. Jn the home of a people German robbed un-known perpetrators 200th RM after they had tied the woman and gagged her. The woman died of the consequences of the harassment. In the reporting month, 9 533 kg of meat and sausage products, 24 pigs, 1 cow, 278 pieces of poultry, 2 450 kg of butter, 20 kg of lard, 4 700 kg of flour, 7 670 eggs, 1 500 m of textile and much more were confiscated in the Reichsgau Wartheland. A Pole sought for black slaughter was shot after his arrest in an attempt to escape.