THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 778, sig. 110-5/68

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17 connections in East Bohemia and has already requested weapons material for the individual groups. According to their exact location, the individual sites for the different districts of East Bohemia have become known with the individual slogans and signs of light by decrypting the captured sayings. Security measures carried out. On 13.12.44 Russian F-Agents group in strength of 2o man on the Gend.Komm. in Heraletz made raid. At the same time the present gend. officials deprived of their uniforms and weapons. Gleiche gang undertook raid on butcher load in the same village and robbed the business. In the evening of the same day, two Russian F-agents disguised as Prot. Gend. officers forced a local transporter to drive to Chezlau. On the state road leading to Chotieborsch, the aforementioned driver had to take over about 1 7 other parachute agents dressed in uniform. On the road to Tchaslau-Prague, about 3 km behind Chadau, drivers were instructed to turn on the district road that branches off in a southerly direction. Near the village of Trebeschitz, the agents left the car and gave circular signs of light in a southern direction with flashlights. The driver was ordered under threats to go back the same way to Heraletz and, if necessary, to file a complaint only after his arrival there. Passage runs. On the night of the 14th to the 15th of December 44, about 15 in Prot.Gend appeared in the one shift in "Dvorecek" near Bohdanech. Uniformly dressed Russian F-agents and forced the 3 families present there to grant accommodation to the gang. All members of the group, according to the information of the mentioned families, made an extremely comfortable impression and demanded to sleep. Under display of safety posts the one shift became. It was completely completed, so that it was impossible for the mentioned family members to leave the apartment. 2 Prot.Ang. of the gang, who came to the one shift in search, were held until the evening hours of 15.12.44. The commander of the Prots.Gend.Postens Bohdanetsch (a German), who on the basis of a report from the Bevökerung reported regarding. an economic control carried out in Dvorecek was also recorded,