STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2047, sig. 109-7/54

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1010 19 September 1940. St.S. 501 a/40. 2.) To the Reichsführer-j and head of the German police, Berlin SW 11, Prinz Albrechtstrasse 8. Reichs Führer ! On the night of 20th to 21st May 1938 the Egerer Brucktor suburbs were shot by the farmers Böhm and Hoffmann of Egerland by the Czech guards Koranda and Kriegl who were used as state defense guards (SOs). Böhm and Hoffmann drove on a motorcycle out of town in the direction of Franzensbad around 3.45 o'clock. Kriegl wants Böhm und Hoffmann to have asked for a stop by drawers and stop calls. However, Hoffmann, who stopped the motorcycle, did not stop, so he gave Koranda the order to fire after passing the motorcycle with the words "strele" (shot). Koranda had executed the order immediately, but wanted only to have aimed at the front wheel of the motorcycle. Hoffmann died at the scene of the crime shortly after the wound his fatal injuries, while Böhm died after an unsuccessful operation at the hospital in Eger. Böhm