STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 594, sig. 109-4/341

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40 - 2 - the Czechs said that in the course of this day the Gestapo and all the other German authorities left the Protectorate. For these reasons, the Chechens stood on the streets for hours and waited for the Germans to be withdrawn. Some Czech gendarmes were employed, which asked the accumulated people to go on. However, the crowd remained on the street." At 10: 00 p.m. the following second special report from the SD department Tabor was sent: "At 2 o'clock in the evening the crowd in the streets had increased to about 7oo people. A former Czech lieutenant named Karel K o c i á n verursach te a collision with two German gendarmerie officers. These two officers were helped by a Czech gendarme and the lieutenant Kocián was arrested. On the way to the Czech police station, a Czech communist named Heinrich Hr u b y called the crowd in the following words: "People, let's not let the man be taken away, because he doesn't deserve it. Germany is fucked. The crowd gathered on the street ran together in no time, and a demonstration of about 5 - 6oo people began on the market place, the same was scattered by the Czech gendarmerie. Kocián and Hruby are arrested. The alarm must stop, "As according to i-Stubaf. He was informed by the officer of the order police of another state in Tabor, who said that no demonstrations had taken place and that there was no peace in Taboor, the director of the SD, 4-0'stuf. Eichler, was called again at 10:45 p.m. and a confirmation of his already handed over Meldun-