STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 586, sig. 109-43333

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134 PRESIDIUM OF THE MINISTERY OF THE INNER Prague, 27 December 1939. No.19.933 Pr4s.1939. $+ Subject: Přívozer Mineral Oil Industries in Moravian Ostrava, guard. To the Lord Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia in Prague. Referring to the telephone order of 24 December 1939, it is announced that according to the orders made, the external surveillance of the above-mentioned works was taken on December 25, 1939 at 4 o'clock in the morning by the gendarmerie in the strength of 6 men. In the course of the day, the gen Darmerie was strengthened to 16 men. On 1 December 1939, a separate guard-detachment of a7 gendarmes was formed, which on the same day at 1 7 o'clock took over the guarding of the goods from outside. 22 factory employees provided the guard-service inside the works.