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

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Liaem binger ok 1. 18.19.11.39 Prague, 18. Nov. (United Pres.) Armed SS departments and German police in addition to the Czech university also occupied the house of Czech students. During yesterday's day also field guns and machine guns were brought into the city. Prague,18. Nov (United Press) 1200 students are still in custody. At first, 2000 had been arrested, but 800 were later released. Additional sections of SS troops arrived here. There are 10,000 SS men in Prague. The centre of the city is as extinct as it is. According to the reports of yesterday's executions, the population avoids being in the streets as much as possible.