STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2343, sig. 109-11/145

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24 Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-4 Prag-Bubentsch, den 27.1.1943 SD-Leitsabteilung Prag Sachsenweg Fernsprecher 774-44 III - SA 32 An den p Mr. State Secretary EE Gruppenführer K.H. Fr a n k, Prag. Betr.: Demonstrative behaviour of the Czechs on the occasion of the return of a student from the concentration camp. The SD department of Königgrätz informs the following as a review result of the events brought in the local daily report of l2.l.1943: "Černy, son of the school director in Chlumetz, informed his parents by telephone on 30.12.1942 of his imminent return from the concentration camps - Č. came there in November 1939 of his time àls student. His arrival on the same day had spread among the Czech population of the city - Chlumetz counts about 5,000 inhabitants - immediately out of the ordinary, so that besides the relatives also numerous other persons were present at the arrival at the station, went to meet him, stood in front of the houses or greeted him from the windows. Among the people, the Č. There were a number of young boys waiting at the railway yard, who belonged to the dissolved Sokol and welcomed Černy through the rich hands (15 - 20 people). Also on the way from the station to the apartment vør welcomed him to almost every house the house inhabitants, who were informed of his arrival and sometimes also went to meet him. Among the latter, the merchant K o h o u t e k, the son of the city secretary N o v á k and the tailor master H a v l i n (Havlin used to be a Sokolfunktionär). Other Czechs greeted him from the window. One can almost say that all the l0 writers wanted a Czech to welcome him to the home. Derny was still on the way from the station to the apartment, b.w. 141 X1 %-74 0/42