GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 783, sig. 110-5/73

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St.M. V H - 7 e/45g. Prague, 6 March 1945. Secret 1.) KR-PS: 6.1, 45 An l-Brigadeführer Regierungspresident Krebs, Aussig. Regierung. BrigadeführER ! With regard to the Schreckenstein stairway, the Heeregruppe Mitte has announced the following: "Heeresgruppe has submitted the process, concerning the blasting of the Scherzstein stairways, to the General of the pioneers and forts in the High Command of the Army for decision and asked to assign the Wehrkreis IV, instead of a total blasting, possibly only a paralysis of the stairplane with partial destruction of the transition possibility." H ENCS Hitler ! ==References==<br>