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

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42 Copy! LVN Brno FS Nr. 103 16.2.1945 22.14 - To the German State Ministry for Bohemia and Moravia, e.g. Herrn Ministerialrat Dr.Gies in Prague. 9 bermert : Subject: Attacks by Wehrmacht units. 6r.nae they Jch reports: 1. On order of the local commander Wisowitz / Captain ~ere Ais. Pfeifer as commander of the supply base / was set in 20 municipalities of the district Zlin the curfew at 20.45 a clock and the civil traffic in the period from 21.00 1Emcmifercil until 5 o'clock. 2. On order of the leader of the Jnfant.Batl.5oo / Oberleutnant deiy ete ao I Mahn / the civil transport was stopped in the time from 19.00 to 6.00 o' clock. - . 3. At the order of the commander of Hungarian Pioneer-Batl. No.56 / Major Babosch / in the municipality of Wessela the lvitiane to. Civil traffic was stopped from 19.00 to 5 o'clock. fallkiper Jch had ordered the responsible district captain in Zlin, jeererdripe the unit leaders to point out the total inadmissibility of the orders, emphatically the immediate withdrawal of the ehi. to demand and demand measures if, for military reasons, similar measures were urgently necessary to have them carried out exclusively by the civilian administration. Jch would also like to ensure that the above-mentioned unit leaders, acting on a military-sector basis, were ordered to withdraw their orders without delay. /2 5T The President of the State: Dr. Schwabe.