STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 701, sig. 109-4/450

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- 2 - (I By decree of 22.7.1940 number IV E 4 3l257 g I have already ordered that in the case of the removal of enemy parachute agents in close cooperation with the service stations of the police, the party, the Reichsarbeitsdienst etc.: most forceful search and search actions should be initiated. By letter of 26.11.40 #r. IV A 1 6022/40 g I have issued the decree of the Chief of the Police of the l.lo.40 No. OKdo.g 2 (ol) 1l8/40 g, which regulates the fight against paratroopers and airborne troops, and in which it is suggested, among other things, that the local police stations must immediately notify the state police stations when paratroops or airborne forces occur. By my circular of 5.VII.194l IV A 1 No. In 6022/40, paragraph 9 of the Decree of the Chief Order Police was supplemented on the basis of the experience gained in the meantime that parachutists, who are soldiers of the enemy powers, should be treated as war prisoners and transferred to the competent military service. In the case of civilians (news agents, saboteurs, terrorists), they are transferred to the custody of the home state police. IV A 2/968 B/41 g I have ordered that parachute agents of Czech or Slo-Wak ethnicity, who have been employed and controlled in the Protectorate, General Government and in the eastern parts of the empire, be transferred in principle to the state police station of Brno for uniform and cen- tral treatment if they are used in pro-