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10 oeatiadtA ddaetueC sdoaiteilsisoelsnoitsl shotain baetaatsbgd uen paigagtiateion MTOa Khek refused to do so with the indication that he would have preferred the manager to at least hold his hand to thank him. The incident has now been criticised, the report said, for some days in the most derogatory form and many Czech followers of the Skodawerke had expressed themselves to the men, who in their duty to save the steel, including Khek in particular, that now is the thanks that they had done so, they see once again NO as the German business leaders act to the Czechs, why they would not have let the steel run out, etc. On the basis of this communication, I asked the secret state police to examine the incident in detail and the result is now available.The final report of the secret State police is as follows: "On l2.9.44, when some workers were busy stabbing Martinsofen No. 5, a pilot alarm was triggered. The batch (steel mass) was already in the pans, which had to be transported with the crane to the sampling point. Most of the staff, including the responsible crane driver, had already visited the air protection room as required, without taking further care of the full-filled pans. However, a violation of the duty to work cannot be blamed on the workers, because the rule exists that every worker has to search for the air shelter when the sirens sound. Crane driver, Bohumil K h e k, who is already employed in the Skoda plants of Pilsens for two years and noticed this condition, although he had nothing to do with the matter and still has a sense of duty in his body and knew that the liquid steel hardened after about 3o minutes and thus becomes useless for processing, briefly resolutely climbed the crane and brought the individual pans to the sampling point. In addition, he brought another pan to Martinsofen No.l, which was just before the chipping and there was a risk that the liquid steel mass at the cochineal would squeeze the upstream sand filling out of the furnace and pour the steel mass onto the ground. 79576 6621 4