STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2185, sig. 109-9/9 (damaged)

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A bs c h rif t ! (translation Svoboda. The situation with us has changed according to (part of the text missing) the attack on Heydrich as expected, in such a way that as a result of the extensive arrests and rapid raids (deleted) any underground work is destroyed for a few months. (organized) In the general raids, the increased activity of the Gestapo, and the many accusations by the cowards and those who work with the Germans, we have almost all the leading people, civilians and soldiers. We have renewed the leadership of the "Uvod", but the activity is small and limited to the transmission of news. There are several tens of thousands of people arrested, executed and tortured to death since the attack four to five thousand. In the autumn of 194l about two thousand. The executions continue. The number of those sentenced to death continues to increase. Three thousand immigrants are in the concentration camp in Swatob, where they move to Gya, and many are also in other camps and prisons. The biggest mortality rate is in Oswieczymi (here also several hundred Sokoln died) and in Mauthausen. Ten university orofessors from Brno arrested by l8 have already died. Unsar's original news network has been destroyed by the arrests and now we are building up a new network with people but there is already a serious lack of skills. We announce a list of the important detainees, convicts and executed (unpublished ones).) The actions of the parachute agents have threatened a lot. The Germans boast that in the spring they caught almost all parachuted agents who had jumped off here until that time. A certain (Gusta-Eva-Ruda-Ypsilon-Karel) who has reported to the parachutes so that he can tell the Gestapo everything he has experienced in our emigration. The parachutists are not ideally trained enough. It is necessary that more should not be dropped before we do not give notice. We are now in contact with a Sokol group, consisting of three men, for whom we have provided ubiquities and also jobs and with their help we are building a new