STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 618, sig. 109-4/365

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SS_Rottenführer_ Emil König, Brno, 19th December 1939. 4./7. SS-Totenkopfstandarte. I.7. M=Svienitp.iandarte 27.Dec. 1939 Entrance: Kdr.: 20j.: Beto: elage: M e l d u n g. Betr. : Incident at the station guard from 18 to 19.12.1939. 19.3o a Wehrmacht officer entered the guardhouse, which was occupied by the Wehrmcht and us. We sat in the right corner of the guardhouse and talked about the latest special news. We also played the radio. Due to these circumstances we could not immediately see that a lieutenant of the Wehrmacht had entered the guardroom. When we knew him, we immediately took a stand. Nevertheless, he ran like wild towards us and yelled at us with the following expressions: You are just the right ones to me, I ate you as well as you. Get out of here, get out of there! I don't want to see you anymore. You horde, you bastards. He said to me in particular: I have you arrested, I will have you taken away if you do not keep your mouth shut. Just because I always said to him: "Yes, Mr. Lieutenant. We left the guardhouse as ordered and only entered it again after he left cas guardhouse and said to us: "Now you can enter the guardroom again. As a remark: "The officer brought out two Wehrmacht members of the guard with the order that they should clear a compartment on the train so that they could have room. To these two men he said: "Don't let these snouts drop you. To the guard of the Wehrmacht he said, take a daeee r d aa a After the lieutenant had boarded the train, the two shooters Martin and Hirche came back to the guardhouse and one said to the SS-man Groll: "If I kept saying what the lieutenant still said to me, then he would be shot immediately. juf bi SS-Rttf.