English Translation

The search operation in the area of Bereun, Rakonitz led on 30.4.1942 by reference of a Czech farmer at Hřiglitz a. Beraun to the recording of a suitcase with transmitters, which was above ground and obviously from parachute agents. The Czech gendarmerie, which carried out this search operation under German leadership, was left for observation at the site of the discovery and, in the evening with two persons who wanted to pick up the suitcase, went into a firefight, killing a Czech gen Darmerie officer, another seriously injured and a third slightly injured, while one of the affected persons was killed. In the meantime, the victim was identified as a parachute agent who had already jumped off at Gudding in Moravia on 27.3.42. The immediately initiated search operation after the second person - with which the Waffen-SS, Wehrmacht, government force and Czech police were deployed - went without result. On the other hand, seven complete equipments were found for parachute agents and two load parachutes, a steel tube (about 2 m x 50 cm), backpacks with food and more. The explosives found can be attached by magnetic force to the object to be blown up and are of the same kind as those captured in Norway and Holland. Due to the air raids and English radio threats that the English would make a major attack on Pilsen on May 3rd, a fear psychosis broke out in Pilsen, which increased to panic-like confusion during yesterday's day. Some of the population was anxious to be able to leave Pilsen as soon as possible. The rush to the trains departing from Pilsen Hauptbahnhof took on impossible forms, the travellers tore around the squares and aroused the impression of refugees. The arrival on the individual platforms was so great that half of the persons waiting for departing trains had to stay there, because they could not be accommodated anymore due to lack of space. As luggage boxes, suitcases, strollers and so on were carried along in large numbers.