STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1776, sig. 109-5/4

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Annex Copy of a Blitz-Fernschrift No. 0758 from Prague from May 3, 1942 to the head of the Reich Bormann! Führerauptquartier. Dear party comrade Bormann. In order to ensure that the information of the Führer is not interrupted by the repeated postponement of my lecture dates for the fundamental questions, I will make short announcements of the event from now on without regard to the outstanding lecture with the Fuhler. All fundamental questions and decisions, as far as they do not require the personal lecture with the guide, I will in future summarize in the situation reports, which I have available at greater intervals. I ask for information of the guide and for the presentation of the following 1st event report: I.) Enemy arrivals and descent of parachute agents. As head of the security police and the SD, I have reported that in Norway and Holland, security police were able to seize a number of enemy parachute agents, i.e. saboteurs landed by ships, and that the most modern sabotage equipment was captured in considerable numbers. Also in the Protectorate the last entrances, which - as the Führer already knows - took place on the nights of 25/26, 27/28, 29/30 April 1942, were used for the removal of numerous parachute agents. In order to divert from these jumps, a number of mock bombs took place near Pilsen and other places, which were not at the finish despite the set-up fires and thus good visualisation of the Skoda works. Due to these enemy flights, in particular the second, were carried out in the rooms in which a jump of agents