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

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27 Further roll-up of the illegitimate resistance group within the "Verband d.Chechische Preiwilligen Peuerwehren in Böhmen und Mähren". In custody of the head of the fire brigade, Frantisek P r o c h a z ka, Qberlehr i.R., and three other functionaries. From the Landesverband Böhmen, whose chairman was also P r o c h a z k a, Head (Commandant) Bddan W e g n e r, Organizational Director Emil K a r p a s, Senior Teacher, Social and Economic Officer Josef D e d e k, Kaufmann and Chairman of the Press Commission at the Landesverein, Redalteur der "Feuerwehrrundschau" Vaclav D r c v o, Oberlehrer. Prochazla, Karpas, Dedek u. Drevo decided in March 1942 to set up an illegitimate resistance group within the legal organization of the volunteer fire brigades. It was assumed that first of all the leading punctuators of the district fire brigade associations would initiate work in illegible and win for further work in the flat country. By statements about 6o per son illeg. Tasks: holding tight military exercises under the guise of legal events of the fire brigade in order to carry out rapid deployment; ensuring the vehicles of the Peuerwehr and private companies for imminent illeg. Operation; in the event of an accident occupation of all important transport facilities, authorities and punk stations. The extent to which measures of the functionaries of the association, who were equally illegitimate punctuators, were carried out, shows: A local group leader of the NSDAP in Bohemia reported that firearms of the village stopped military exercises. Firefighters in purely military practice, having themselves used as camouflage Reisig, among others, observed. By statements proved that firefighters of the place several times day and night exercises