STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1775, sig. 109-5/3

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4a - 2 - and manifold: The reports that German-friendly Czechs and Germans are harassed by their surroundings are piled up from different parts of the country. The fact that a family member works in the Reich is sufficient, e.g. for boycotting, for dismissals from the home and work, for refusing the necessary support from the municipal offices, etc. In general, the authorities are particularly distinguished in this regard. Germans are treated much more sharply than the Czechs on every appropriate occasion, in particular in tax matters. The number and content of these reports can only lead to the conclusion that German hostility is still increasing and is taking ever wider circles. The lack of support for the population in the large search operation after the murderer Smudek is also a sign of this. In connection with the discovery of the so-called military organization, a house search and his arrest should be carried out by the secret state police on March 2nd, 194o at the Czech hour Johann Smudek (b. l9l5) in Taus. Smudek managed to pull his pistol and shoot at the criminal assassin Neubauer. The officer got a bullet shot at the right side of the skull, the bullet stuck between the skull cover and hard brain skin and could be removed by now. At the moment there is a paralysis on the left side. The perpetrator managed to escape. As a countermeasure, leading figures were arrested as hostages in Taus l45, the closure of all restaurants and entertainment venues from 19.3 o'clock and a German government commissioner was appointed. March l94o in the Sudetengau near the protectorate border near Pirk, without any apparent reason, two German border guards, who came with a hung rifle and both hands in the coat pockets. While the investigation was under way, it was suspected that Smudek a uch was involved in the murder of the German police officer Kniest in Kladno in June 1939. A former classmate Smudek, named Peter, has now confirmed this suspicion and confessed that 64123