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269 the bridge and demands the return of these pontoons to their owners. This request is rejected by the ethnic group leadership and a military settlement of the bridge is ordered by self-protection organizations. The leader of the Bridge Command is ordered to take action against German services if necessary. More and more it turns out that the chief of the police district commander, Lieutenant Colonel Stötzel, is unable to recognize the military situation. From the military side it is only pointed out that Russians would make an attempt to get through north of the Iron Gate after they were not able to conquer the Iron gate. However, Lieutenant Colonel Stötztel maintains that the movements in the Romanian Banat are pure partisan movements. However, the police would deal with partisans without difficulty. He misunderstood, as it became clear later, that the Red Army, as on many other occasions, also searched the room with guerrillas in order to be able to break through at the most favorable place. Modosh was known as the cheapest place. Due to the failure of the district command and the police district command, the military units in Belgrade are also misinformed. It is still believed that one has to deal with guerrillas and overlooks that the partisans are after all nothing more, like reserves of the Red Army, which are used according to the well-known Bolshevik tactics not as reserves, but as vanguards. On Saturday, the 3o.Sept., the breakthrough took place at Modosh. The small forces standing in the room / alarm association, self-protection of the German team, police/ are not enough to stop the advance on Betschkerek. While the Russians, very closely staggered, set the 3l. army corps on Betşchkerek in march, daş lo. Corps as a left flank guard in the direction of Werschetz and as a right flank guard a division related, everything was on the German side to put together hardly a regiment. The military leadership takes over in the last eye view General Kühlwein, which however only gets very weak associations on the air way after / parts of the regiment Brandenburg/. His staff is also incomplete, so that he installs a student of Prof. Beyer, the badly wounded active lieutenant Schaller as I c. The advance aùf Werschetz leads to violent street fights, in which the alarm association consisting of vacationers of the Waffen-SS, the labor service of the German ethnic group, the local German team participates. In these street fights, almost the entire labour service and the entire leadership corps of the German team fall. The advance on Betschkerek reached very quickly villages in the area around Betschkerek. Ernsthausen and Lazarfeld are no longer able to evacuate, only the village of Klefk can be evacuated, even if the treks already have to take off under machine gun fire. In Betschkerek, it turns out that the many bars that have dealt with the evacuation questions so far have not grown up to the new situation, probably the Fiedler leadership staff as well as the Voli commandos go to the Teiss or further west. In the city of Betschkerek, Prof. Beyer the evacuation of the urban population and achieved through negotiations with General Kühlwein that the entire car park of all military and police stations in the night from te-e to around lo clock for Eva- 49842