STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2732, sig. 109-14/35

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The Prague Security Police Commander, 8.9.1942. and SD Cdd-to 25 - 100 - 09 (1) IV.Action report for the period from 1.6. - 3l.8942. In the period under review, they increased the total number of operations handled due to war crimes and crimes by around 10%. Since the most severe measure is now being applied in the legal assessment of economic offences, the number of accused persons brought before the judge for the purpose of issuing an arrest warrant has also increased by almost 50%. Despite the increasing number of crimes committed, a repid abmahme of certain types of crime can be identified. These are the worst and most serious cases of trade in sewers and chains, price chains, black eyes and cereals. While the decline in cereal secrets is seasonal, the decline of the other offences is undoubtedly partly due to the need for and the disappearance of the noeh, which has always been among the population of the Protectorate, of larger stocks of food and food tied to it and to the strict and new control of the herds of animals. On the other hand, the number of a) thefts and theft, b) falsifications and manufactures of falsifiers