English Translation

2 Report 00842 from the Kladno outpost to SD-LA.Prague of 2.11.44. Betr.: Inspection trip of the minister B i n e r t. "Minister Bienert kommt" has been distributed for days in the Czech authorities in Kladno and Laun. Old Czech officials, to whom the Nane BienerT is still a term from the past, looked forward to the announced visit. Others said that he will come and go like everyone else. It was only when the preparations became apparent that the interest was getting closer. Conjectures about the nature and purpose of his visit were changed, different views were expressed. In Kladno it was mostly the Beantenschaft and the police,in Laun - as inmer,- wide circles of the population who discussed the visit with interest, mixed feelings and shared opinions. The Ternin was not announced, it is said in Laun, that the minister would be careful to come to Laun now, where the parachutists (parachutist agents) can lurk everywhere. Some concern also prevailed in the minister's family. His 28-year-old son, with whom he lives as a widow in the common household, bids farewell very warmly early with a kiss and the words: "Be careful, Papa". But "Papa" was quiet. When he comes to Kladno early on Monday, the 3o.1o.1944, he is well-organized, a police force awaits him, which is also the heart of an interior minister and former. The Minister's car is expected outside the city border. The district chief of Kladno reports himself, is graciously invited to the car, the commander of the government police in Kladnos reports very closely, then climbs his open wa- and kradfahrer with yellow flag, the police car with the commander, the car of the minister, behind which the wagon of the district gendarmerie commander, at the end again a bicycle driver with yellow flags, drive in to Kladna. At all street corners, ./.