STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 578, sig. 109-4325

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32 R-Prot.Na 0024 29.139 200= Prague, 29 September 1939. FS. By G - Telex ! Urgent ! Immediately ! To the Reichsführer SS and head of the German Police, Berlin. Reichs Führer ! The locational elder of the SS-VT Prague reports that on oral notice of the leader of the 6. SS-TV (mob.) Standarte, SS-Oberführer Scherner, the only active battalion in the framework of this standard is immediately pulled out of the guard and sefert in march. Please note the following: 1. Due to the composition of the two replacement bataillons of the 6th SS TV (mob.) standard in terms of their level of training and their equipment, the security in the guard service is no longer fully guaranteed. Ss-Oberführer Scherner told me that he had no gas masks (except Czech gas mask) and pistols in the replacement battalions. 2. If it does not appear possible that suddenly troops are pulled out of the guard service without an orderly replacement by a new part of the troops. I ask for a decision as soon as possible, when at least an active fully trained and ready armed and equipped batallon is available again. 3. According to the announcement of the SS-Oberführer Scherner, the further withdrawal of men from the replacement battalions is to be expected. There is even the possibility that the standard as such plötzlicn no longer at all for the watch and safety purposes in