STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1858, sig. 109-5/86

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VE -9 - occupied with former legionaries. Colonel Klofanda himself tries to show a loyal attitude externally, but does nothing to influence and educate his officer corps in a sense consistent with political conditions. The two former Eclks German officers in higher positions, Lieutenant Colonel Langhammer and Major Franz - Jglau, face a unified defense fringe, which makes it impossible for them to gain stronger influence. Langhammer has even told me that the talks are taking place when he joins the other officers of the staff. I have repeatedly spoken to the lords of the police regiment of Moravia about these unacceptable personal conditions in the gendarmerie and encouraged the elimination of the legionaries; however, I was held against the fact that personnel relocations could not be carried out at the moment, since the commander of the order police in Prague would place great value on the attention given to the idea of autonomy within the protectorate police. This attitude is not entirely understandable to me. Since the establishment of the Protectorate 1, extensive interventions in autonomy have been carried out especially on the territory of the police. I just need to remind you of the transformation of the Police in Jglau, which was almost completely removed from the scope of the protectorate administration and re-formed from members of the SS. Also the Police Directorates in Moravian