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

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34 In addition to the closed units mentioned above, the military service of the police was set up with a strength of 103 officers and 5 805 guards. These forces took over the first police order service in the cities and on the flat land. Jhre's main task was first: prevention of food deportations, destruction of vital goods, looting, raids, etc. To support the police, the NSKK set up 16 companies as auxiliary police, which took over the traffic control in the larger cities. In addition, these com panies, with the gendarmerie, provided rapid signposting of the country roads and the cities of Poland and thus for the marking of the supply roads for the fighting force. Until the beginning of October 1939, the technical emergency aid as a technical auxiliary police of the police had only sent in 11 094 emergency workers. Until the end of the military duties in Poland, the commanders of the police and the commander of the independent police battalions under a higher and police leader were directly under the command of the army commanders. The number of dead and wounded at these places is 83 dead, 117 wounded. Among the dead is a major general. 2. Operation area West. In order to ensure the mob.-moderately prepared release, 26 prisoners were set up in the operation area West (home area) apart from the local police forces. As far as they came to the entrance, they worked with best success. In order to be able to carry out the large traffic arising during the offensive and the supply of the army rubbing loose, 2 traffic departments were established. These were under the responsible commander of the police. 3 traffic control squads from the NSKK were set up by the police of the order. These were directly under the command of the commander of the Reigning Army. Jhr Einsass was intended for the advance beyond the Reich border. The entire traffic control on the marching, connecting and transit roads in the West Operation Area was secured by the police bodies and their auxiliary formations for the smooth traffic of the troops according to the most accurate plans of the Wehrmacht. The large transports of people and materials necessary for the offensive and the construction of the west wall were carried out without any significant friction. In the cleared area on the French border, reinforced individual service personnel provided their service, for example, in front of the German positions, in order to prevent the return of the inhabitants to the mined and partially destroyed area. To shoot rods and headquarters, three major special commandos were formed and sewed in. Beyond the border of the Reich in the operational area West, 1 fire-gun police regiment to 3 departments and 1 additional squadron under the direct command of the army, 6 trains of police to traffic control at the entrance of the organization Todt, 2 traffic departments, 1 release hundredth and temporarily subordinated to the army.