A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1787, sig. 109-5/15

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- 8 V showed the reliability of the investigation results. Crimea In Crimea, the use of civilian investigators in the security police investigation activities showed particularly good successes. Thus the Wehrmacht was allowed to carry out a major action against the guerrilla groups of Beschuy, Ailjanma and Chermalyk, in which, besides a special command and a Tartar self-defense company of the security police and SD, three Romanian infantry battalions, four Romanian squadrons, German tanks and fog launchers participated. 353 guerrillas were killed in battle. The loot was considerable, the use of the Tartar Self-Protection Company set up by the security police and the SD has always been a great success. It has been possible to regularly burn down bases, secure weapons, ammunition storage and food and destroy the partisans. The leaders of the Sevastopol partisan department and their chief of staff, the commissioner of the extermination battalion Bakhchisaraj, the instructor of education in the Bakhzhisarai Rayon and other leading partisans, who were arrested by the security police and the SD in an action, were publicly hanged as a deterrent example in Bakhchizaraj. As the latest camouflage method, it has been established that several guerrillas are exposed to