THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1914, sig. 109-6/6

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38 In the air-dangerous areas of the Empire, the police stations for the air shooting day and night are occupied. After air attacks are carried out, the damage is immediately combated, the air attacks carried out are evaluated, the necessary reports and reports are immediately returned, the measured device checked and, where damaged or destroyed, eaten. Since forces are not available to replace the police forces, which consist only of active police force, the permanent largest service-inmate is required. According to the reports to date, the Einsaz of the police through the air raids in the Reich required 14 members of the active police, 24 members of ShD, to wounded 4 members of active Police, 59 members of shD. Among the members of the active police are a higher F- and police leader and a staff officer of the Schuzpolizei. II. Einsat of police formations at the Wehrmacht. a) The M-Police Division. In 1939, the Pj-Polizei division was set up with the rank of military-trained men in the police department and with the entrance of the required officers and non-commissioned officers. After a three-month training on the troop training break, the Jj-police division was placed in front of the line at the end of February 1940 on the Upper Rhine. After two months the division left this first front position to be available for another one. A march of several days, which goes over long distances, led the division into the area of Sedan. At the great intervention of the German army in June of the year the ß-Polizei division was sunk into the storm on the Argonnerwald with transition over the Ar-Denen Canal. About the Einsat of the Y-Police Division and its struggle, the Corps command of the Commanding General, to whom the F-Polizei division was subject during these fights, says the following: "The Commander General Corps headquarters, Bourbonne of the .... Army Corps. les Bains, 25. 6.40. Corps day command The great breakthrough battle and the devastating persecution of the enemy are victoriously ended. The ceasefire has been fought. The divisions, corps and army troops of the ... A. K. have glorious share in the war-defining success. All leaders and troops have done their best in the fight and on the march. I thank every soldier of the . . . A.K. from the heart for his bravery and devotion. The hard breakthrough fights for the height of Rilly and Voncq on the 9th and 10th. June, the heavy, always victorious persecutions in the forest area of the Arguns and at the upper Maas from 11 to 19 June are glory deeds of the young regiments. The Bavarian . . division, the Rhenish . . . Division, the f-police division from all the Gauen of Great Germany, the artillery, pioneers, M. G. troops, news groups and the back services of the corps and army troops have bet to win the glorious victory. 3