STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1975, sig. 109-6/67

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English Translation

6-9a Warning examples Out of greed favored enemies of the state. In a state police action against the Polish resistance movement, several hundred leading persons of this movement were taken into refuge. From time to time, in each case for a certain number of detainees, detention examination dates were held, which were intended to check the need for further protective detention for each individual detainee. If the inquiries received from the relevant official and party departments revealed that a prisoner's release could be held responsible, then he was set free. With the confiscation of the inquiries, the criminal assistant D. In this connection, the Committee of the Regions also called on the Commission to submit to the Council a proposal for a Directive on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to the placing of plant protection products on the market. Through a popular German with whom he had become friends, D. was brought to the thought that his official activity was a dishonest way of obtaining additional income. Together with a trusted Poland, the relatives of such prisoners were approached, in which a review of the detention was not envisaged, i.e. no date for the detention examination was set. Against payment of a larger, always well-known sum, they were offered the release of the detainee upon filing of a detention request. This activity was the responsibility of the People's German and the Polish, while D. only appeared upon the receipt of the application for release from prison. If the information then collected by him was not too unfavourable, then he drafted a favourable proposal and dealt with it in the manner indicated. In the few cases in which the previous presentation of his draft seemed too dangerous to him in his immediate fore-setter, he forged his signature and sent the proposal directly to the pre-set office outside his place of duty. D. In about 25 cases, the release of Polish prisoners of war, whose release was not intended in itself, was obtained as a result of which he was entitled to additional income from RM. 7000.—to 8000.-, which he used for himself. About five times the people of Germany earned, while only small amounts were paid to Poland. D., who in such a significant way violates his official duties, the security of the empire by the release of 06