STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2141, sig. 109-8/24

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38a -2- S Of the total number of 39 applicants, only 9 have been admitted to the police service so far. The lengthy treatment of each individual request at the Ministry of the Interior in Prague and allegedly also at the commander of the police, to whom all requests must be submitted, resulted in the fact that a large part of the applicants looked in the meantime for a different existence and was thus lost for the police service. - From an expert point of view, it is explained that it would have been possible to use German forces for all important positions in the Brno police department F.31/10 if the 10 requests had been made more quickly. However, the fact is that even today individual divisions and commissioners (e.g. the commissioner Le Königsfeld and Hussowitz, i.e. in predominantly Czech districts) are without a single German beant. Of the altogether 1 249 government police officers are only 55 Germans. With this status it seems impossible, especially in the present time, to perform tasks that are political reliability and conscientious - he - Y gez.Böhme. me e OE - U X. Lre.aeew 7. s. 7g4s bei derow budegcichnet Deoecuurgegi am 2.2y 42 2/97.47. OCI