STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1993, sig. 109-6/85

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14 past service assignment, which he had found at home, with the stamp of the company and his own signature, to extend further, which was not even contested at the time of arrival. He would also have come to Pressburg unresolved, if not Hru- sovsky with Dr.Gasperik, who had learned of the self-sufficient extension of validity, would have intervened at the police department in Pressburg. On the same afternoon, both gentlemen took an office lady to Hrusovsky's home, where they put together a lawsuit against Reichert against suspected suspicion of espionage, and then took her to the police.On the basis of this complaint, Reichert was arrested when he returned to Marchegg and taken to the Preßburgg police prison as a criminal. From this detention he was only released after a house search and after the interrogation of some persons, when it turned out that it was a harmless matter. Such a sadism of these gentlemen ... 3. The case of Captain Felix J u ng is also interesting, which was also announced as a German after many years of service. In this case, too, it was the main mistake that he was a German and therefore "unreliable", although he was popular with the crew. One evening he had to stop at a small German place with his ship on the Danube because of fog and wait for the morning. In the inn, where he had spent the night with his cadets (a Chechen) and the machinist (a Czech), an official from the German port administration visited her - as he recognized her to be a member of the shipping company - to inquire about various electricity conditions. Non-commissioned officers were called back to their table, he asked Captain Jung if they would allow his company to sit down at their table which Jung could not refuse for reasons of self-evident courtesy. However, since the curfew was approaching, the officer asked the captain to go to his ship. The captain had not refused this request either, all the more so since he was in a position to stand at his best with the official in the interests of the service and the company and there was also no danger that any secrets could be kept on the ship, since when the border crossing the border authorities are entitled to search the whole ship and the machinery and all the rooms at all, apart from the fact that the crew is obliged to assist, resp. When the Geseli-CC had left the ship, which was a little away from the shore, with the boat and had still left the shore at the dawn, Captain Jung and his cadets also had to leave with them through Zuwinken. But a sailor claimed to have seen that both the captain and the cadet took farewell with the German greeting