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

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Under-leader courses run and were, as far as the level of training allowed, also used for site watch service.They undercut very frequent changes of the team due to the wartime. Watch service: All units in the Protectorate had a partly very branched guard service since the beginning. The barracks and properties of the Waffen-i, services and shelters of the Stapo and the SD, concentration camp in Brno, from 30.10.1940 also Theresienstadt, the services of the Reichsprotektor in the Czernin-Palais and on the castle, post and railway facilities during the first months of the war.Thus, the weapons in the Protectorate is constantly in the light of the general public and is particularly exposed to the critical considerations of a foreign people. The organization of this extensive guard service often encountered difficulties. Lack of trained personnel as well as the frequent change of units in Prague, also had to influence the soldatic appearance then and when afterwards. Composition of the units and their leader corps: In these points, too, there was a perhaps well-founded but substantial difference in the individual units.The quality of the replacement fluctuated and it has not always been easy to give the large mixture of people of all kinds a uniform imprint in a short time. The leadership corps of the individual troops were also very different in appearance and attitude and depended on the personality of the