STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1269, sig. 109-4/1023 (damaged)

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14a. At 11.30 a.m. the head of the KPLStelle Poznan met and the ongoing war investigation of the special task for the zones north-east and general government of the Grand Faun- speaking was strengthened. Depending on the local circumstances and the order. the distance from the place of escape are the measures in the 2) On the basis of an instruction of the Reichsführer . which has been carried out in various ways through individual areas; the Higher and Police Leaders in Poznan have been informed to the extent that individual measures have been acknowledged or critically highlighted, with all available means to raise the Grand Faun, this will be done further down. At 2.15 p.m., the Chief of the Office V in the Reich Security Chief Office in the entire V. Reichsgebiet and the adjacent occupied territories was ordered by Da after the first 48 hours more than half of the Blitz-FS. Search alert was given and the deployment level of the Grand Fahne fugitives had been retaken, namely in the north and west. The first search order did not yet contain the names of the large-scale search stage in the zones southwest and south-east — and the description of the fugitives and their clothing, since with the exception of the borders — and in the occupied territories these were not yet known at that time. On 9 March 43, the authorities of the Federal Republic of Germany decided that the search in the otherwise operating alarm had been given without delay so that the medical framework could continue to operate. Thus, in the zones northwest and center on beta- it was possible to instruct them immediately, when at 8.15 p.m. the stage was lowered plus Wehrmacht; on 12. 3. 43 the list of names of the displaced persons and a brief reference to the same instruction for the remaining zones north-east and probable clothing and escape direction from the RKPA by General Government, on 16. 3. 43 was also passed on to all Blitz-FS.. The passing of the borders still bribed large-scale investigation level as well as everywhere the personal and personal descriptions of the fugitives and beta level plus Wehrmacht was lifted and instead a supplementary communication regarding the clothing was carried out strengthened war investigation after the circular of the 5. 12. On the afternoon of March 6th, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the situation in the Middle East (- > point 1.3.42). On the occasion of the meeting of the Council of Ministers of the European Union (-» point 1.3.40), the Council adopted a decision on the conclusion of the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Government of the Republic of South Africa (-* point 1.3.50). On 7 March, at 2.47 p.m., which was finally converted into the normal war situation on 26 March, 43. III. a commissioner of the War IA search center as liaison leader and two officers as well as as the success of the large-scale search the re-appropriation of 31 by order of the Reichsführer 5 service dog leader with track- of the 43 from the Oflag Alt-Burgund Entwichenen is to be recorded. dogs sent by plane to the escape place. 8 more British officers were taken after the lifting of the The still in the evening hours of the track-hunting action in a refined hiding place in Altburgund dogs remained fruitless, because the area around the mouth of the found, so that only four of the fugitives so far have not taken escape tunnels already committed throughout the day. In addition, during the period from 6 to 20 March, 43 were completely destroyed in the course of approach possibilities.The service dogs of the search operation were arrested: were continued over the next few days with the fugitive prisoners of war . Combining the large forests near the camp - 809 contracted foreign-volk workers, however, could not track down any of the fugitives. 8281 Other police or judicially sought A special commission headed by the head of state persons 4825 police station Hohensalza took over in agreement with the Deputy Commander General of the XXI. AK. The total: 13915 interrogated by the Reichsführer of the Lagerperso- Von denen aus dem Lager Alt-Burgund Entwichten are fixed and the investigation of the outbreaks taken; another taken: Special commission under the leadership of the head of the KPStelle On 6 March 15 Hohensalza heard the retakens, in order to receive further sub- 7.3. for the search. 9 personal and photographs of the refugees as well as the festival 5 On the 9th of March, messages were published continuously, for the first time on 8th March, 43, in Sonder- 1 On the 12th, 3rd edition of the DtKPBl; for the search particular- 1 on the 15th of these important perceptions were immediately brought to the attention of all by Blitz- 8 FS. and subsequently in the D tKPBLl. 39 The retakes have been taken in the following areas: 1) In the Reichsgauen Wartheland and Gdansk-West Prussia, 16 — and later 8 — in the Reg.-Bez. Hohensalza. In the southern East Prussia and at the border of General 10 in Gau Gdansk-West Prussia, several sparrow bars were formed, since 1 at Belgard in Pomerania, the first arrests already showed that the fugitives in the D-Zug Berlin Cologne near Wuppertal, mainly sought to turn north. 1 in the D train near Stendal, As particularly effective has been the bar formed by the KPStelle Brom- 1 in D train at Kufstein. berg along the net channel from Nakel to East- The arrests have been proved both by officers of the security forward Bromberg. In order to intercept the police, which had broken through here, as well as by the forces of Hilis, from the fugitives - in fact, this was only done by two separate formations, in particular by the Landwacht - a second sparrow bar was operated further north. A fugivator was laid by a train patrol of the Vistula ferry near Schwetz over Tuchel nech Konitz. In addition, the large forest area south and south-east of Thorn was particularly secured. Numerous forest areas were combed through VII. Comprehensive measures were also taken on the eastern sec coast- The content of the Blitz-FS No. 2320 of the RKPA of 6. 3. In 1943 a number of experiences have been found to prevent the escape of refugees with neutral ships, especially Swedish ones, and a report has been described as misunderstood. In spite of the further sparrow from the Bütow (Pommern) area in the south, in the subject: "Security alarm — large-scale search in the Reich area and towards Nakel, the coal railway of Behrend in the Occupied Territories", its formulation unambiguously on the decree v. 28. 9. In 1942, concerning special inspection plan to Gotenhafen, using railway police, especially the security police and the SD, several have secured and completely shut off the peninsula of Hela. Places initially believed that only an increased war flag- 2) In the other search rooms and at the border should trigger. The only in the third sentence of the FS. The measures provided for in the deployment plans were taken as a reference to the War Investigation Order of 5 December 1982.