STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1743, sig. 109-4/1498

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-17- 0S Police Directorate first prohibited any ceremony and demanded that the remains of the deceased be transferred to Moravia and buried there in silence,The students who showed their comrade the last honours went to the protectorate authorities to convict the faith for a funeral celebration. Secretary of State Frank refuted the ban with the insidious thought that it provoked incidents that then dramatically increased. The students were, of course, numerous erechienen."At the end of the ceremony, when they wanted to leave home 28, a German car fubr through their group and the occupants of the car provoked publicly, the young people retaliated the car. At that moment the police intervened and scattered them with batons.The mass of the students dissolved into groups. Some of them agreed again and continued on their way, one of these groups took direction to the Czech Teehnische Eb via the via the high achule xxkxian Karlsplatz and iaxder Resslgasse. Another group went to the Faculty of Philosophy, ind m it took the way across the national road. The students sang the Czech and Slovak national hyenas, they shouted WWe wanted freedom "and #Ee live Peneğ" and shnlich. At that moment came the schofför of the Secretary of State Frank. Not only that he sicå the Kecht mass order to create, he left the car and began to beat some students. In the absence of these provocations, everything would have been quiet, the local police immediately declared: strong police forces observed Venzelsplatz and the old town of Rrxkz Ring and the young men began to disperse, special German formations provided dberal