STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2532, sig. 109-12/179 (damaged)

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Meher Freies Fournal wou 29 n. 22. 1. 40 New revolt movement in Bohemia-Mähren and Austria 72/4.40 Paris, 20 Januer. - Paris Soir reports from the German border that the revolt movement is alive in Bohemia, Moravia and also in Austria. On 13 and 14 January armed groups attacked German police and S. S.. The majority of these attacks had occurred in the Erzgebirge. Three attacks had taken place near Karlovy Vary. The attackers rushed from students who had been chased away by the Germans from the university, but among them were also numerous Sudeten Germans, who formerly belonged to the Social Democratic Party. In the region of Moravian Ostrava, ten S.S. people were killed. Also on the Austrian Slovak border, there were several attacks by former homeguards, in a gas mask factory of Vienna, in which already in November and De- cember strikes had erupted, an explosion occurred, which caused great damage.