English Translation

In the summer of 1939, the Gestapo servants were already operating in 17 cities of Bohemia and Moravia, most of which were the headquarters of Oberlandrats. In the personnel composition it was true that police officials who came from the Empire were in the position of decisive positions. The work of individual departments and reports included monitoring and persecution of all forms of anti-Nazi resistance and, above all, organized illegal resistance movements, but the Gestapo also focused on the control of employees in the arms industry. The Gestapo appeared primarily as an executive component and destroyed everything that could harm the interests of the empire in the area of work deployment, tried to prevent escapes across borders or listening to foreign radio. The important component of the Nazi security apparatus was SD - the security service of the Reich's head of SS (Sicherheitsdienst der SS) (488), which, however, had no executive authority and its regular reports of population sentiments and its responses to the main events in the development of the war influenced decision-making on Nazi occupation policy. In addition to the Gestapo and the Criminal Police (Kriminalpolisei - Kripo), the uniformed police were subject to the Ordnungspolizei- Orpo in the Protectorate, which was divided into police protection (Schupo-Schutzpolisei), the gendarmerie and the municipal police (Gemendepolisei). The first greater opportunity to intervene against the civilian population was given to the police immediately after Heydrich took office as a protector in connection with the organizational provision of his decision to establish the central Terezín ghetto, where Czech, German and Austrian Jews were to be deported. (489) In the Protectorate there were also two regiments of order police, "Böhmen police regiment consisted of five police battalions (Polizei-Bataillon). "Mähren police regimental had three battalion. Battalions of both regiments were infamous especially during the exceptional state of executions based on judgments of martial courts. (490) The Gestapo, the criminal police and SD were subject to the commander of the Security Police and SD at the Office of the Reich Protector, who became SS-Oberführer Gen. W. Stahlecker in the summer of 1939.