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

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The Chief of the Berlin Police of Order, 6 October 194l. 0.-Kdo. g 2 (0 1) No. 3 X/41 (g.). NW 7, Unter den Linden 74. PPE Betr.: Activity report of the units of the local police in the re-established (turned) eastern regions and in the General Government according to the condition of 25.9.194l. /=74/=0.47 - - -- - - The political and economic situation in these regions has not changed noticeably compared to my preliminary report. The Polish population is generally reluctant and does not give up hope of a final victory in England. The supply of food and consumer goods to residents is satisfactory in all parts of the territory, although there are temporary deficiencies in some goods. l.) General Government including Galicia. With the reduction of the police forces in the General Government, which had to follow at the beginning of the Eastern Campaign to take on new tasks in the occupied Russian territories, the robberies of armed gangs have increased again. The gang derelict has experienced a noticeable increase in the number of Russian war prisoners who escaped from the war camps. The firefights carried out by the German and Polish police with the bandits show time and again that the gangs have MG and hand grenades. In addition to the general police service, all police forces during the reporting period, in order to combat bandits and parachutes, to arrest actions by Russian prisoners of war, to search for weapons and ammunition, to prevent smuggling and smuggling, to investigate for workers who have passed from work and to monitor prices. To the Reichsführer 4 On the occasion of and head of the German police in Berl in HLED-1/ 00