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

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33a We remember in proud mourning our dead comrades, who have prepared Germany's mighty victory without being allowed to see it. They should remain a model for us! Our wishes belong to the wounded. Long live the leader! Long live Great Germany ́s future! . gez. Kieniz General of the Jufanterie." 157 officers, non-commissioned officers and crews of the f-police division fell in these fights, 509 officers, sergeants and crew were wounded. The j-polizei division is jetzt as a possession force in France. b) The Einsass der Ordnungspolize inside the Wehrmacht. At the beginning of the war and in its course, 80 officers and 4 388 police men were drafted as reservists to all parts of the Wehrmacht. To the field gendarmerie 280 officers and 7 879 policemen were surrendered by the police, mostly as closed gendarme units with all the equipment and all the motor vehicles. They formed 16 divisions of field gendarmerie and 186 field gen Darmerie squads. Jhr Einsassert took place in all associations of the army. 35 officers and 650 guards were surrendered to the naval coast police. Jyr Einsaz took place from Narvik to the French Wes coast. These officers and men fought in the context of the Navy at the focal points of the event. d d d is 95 dead and 217 wounded according to the information available. c Temporary possession under the command of the Wehrmacht. 1. Inmate in Poland. In the first days of the war police battalions were installed in the campaign against Poland by the police, namely: in the area of the 14th army. 5 police batalons, - 10. " 1 / 1 " 4 " 1 11 8. "1 11 1 1i" of the military commander Poznan "1 . 1 of the 4th army ... .. 1 police battalion and 1 mounted /1 " " department. e c bataillone and 2 mounted departments. The rapid advance of the German army brought for the police batalons tasks of a military kind. While the police battalion Franz from Loj was already at the front line during the breakthrough attempts of the Poles at Kutno, all other battalions had to face fighting with scattered parts of the Polish army during September and October 1939. In addition, in the course of the pacification campaign, a fight against Polish gangs, which had formed from freed breeding animals, was more frequent. In many places, the battalions were responsible for the deportation of the large masses of prisoners. Jhr's smooth removal was necessary for an unhindered advance of the victorious German army. Another important task of the police battalions was to ensure the captured army equipment and the immediate shooting of the arms and business enterprises important for the beer year plan. 4 44581