STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2554, sig. 109-12/201

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CV 1o F.S. In the popular sense of the German border dwellers, the financiers have been called "Figtel..." for obvious reasons since ancient times.When the first foreign border financers came into the sudetenGerman territory, the Germans were greatly surprised that the Czechs were officially wearing this mocking name F. S. (in reality Finančni stráž-) as an abbreviation on their garments.