THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1915, sig. 109-6/7

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39 Hö. 1 August 1940. St.S.453/349/40 To the Wehrmacht authorized to the Reichsprotektor -3.VW1940 in Bohemia and Moravia, Mr. General Friderici, Prague Dear General ! SIFOC At the beginning of the war I had declared myself willing to form from members of the general to be used for railway protection on such routes, which were to be protected as military objects by the Wehrmacht. These were routes which were eligible for the troop transits to Poland. The guarding readinesss for rail protection were placed at the time in the association of the -VT-Standarte "Der Führer". Thus, as stated by the Transport Commission of Prague in its attribution dated 3.11.1939 - Zeichen Az.: 343 u (III) to your department - C.O.-, the military character of the guard is proved. By the use of the watch standing in railway protection at costs