STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2045, sig. 109-7/52

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6a - 12 -. The manor manager then informed the German police Kolin and the army-set-up service. The Czech Polizoiwachmann naln Spitzig and Freyborg with the Czech police station. On the way there they thought again of a flight. But they let off, because it seemed useless to them. Around 20 o'clock German policemen and the army patrols appeared at the Czech police station and the fugitives Spitzig and Freyborg arrested. After understanding the A-location-convandancy in Preg, they were picked up by an Oberscharführer and a /y-Unterscharfänger from the location-comnandantur Prague and sent to the detention centre of the Heinrich Himmler barracks in Prague. :3 The cracking out of the clever Spitzig and Freyborg from the detention was found on 22 October 1940 against Y2 8 o'clock. The defendants Bühlmeyer and Jochimsen were nominated. They explained that they did not know anything about the intended escape, despite detailed arguments, they remained in this presentation. Even in the case of the criminal police, on 27 October 1940, they were still fooling themselves to know something about the plan of the Spitzig and the Freyborg. At a second connexion, under the pressure of the evidence, Jocninsen admitted to the true sechverhalt on 27 Oct. Iy40. Bühlmeyer was then informed of his opposition with Jochimsen. This situation rests on the own information of the defendants, who are competent to the most important points. Spitzig admits that 'he had the intention to flee to Canada and not to return to Germany any more. He claims that the purpose of his escape was to escape execution. He denies that, after the ceremony, the Czech police wacymánn wanted to leave the country again by fleeing *. The defendant Freyborg admits that he and Spitzig wanted to flee abroad, and to escape his punishment. He admits himself that he only wanted to go abroad for a few years. He was not aware that he was going to commit a curse. He had not come to the deed of his own decision, but had persuaded Spitzig to do so. The Taeuscluwe aes parish leader in 41973