English Translation

Security Service RF44 Prague=Bubentich , 7 November 1941. SD section Prague Sachfenweg Fernfprecher 77444 B 4 - VA. 3757 the state secretary nReichsprotector la uhman and mähren. 10.NOV.1941 1. An Tob. No. 44-Obergruppenführer H e y d r i c h , 2. To the State Secretary at the Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia 44-Group leader K.H. Fr a n k , 4/61 Prague. Betr.: Fire brigades in the Protectorate. Vorg.: Ohne. Anlg. - 1 - . An important report about fire brigades is sent in the protectorate with the request for information. Recently a particularly strong advertising activity of the Czech fire brigade was noticed, however, the Czech-national awareness of the fire brigade in the foreground. On the basis of previous observations, it is to be expected that the Czech fire brigades under their often chauvinist leadership will become a man-made shelter of politically burdened, in individual cases even clearly illegal forces. The commander of the police has received information from the relevant report and is kept informed of further findings of the same kind. In the new report on the organisation of fire brigades in the Protectorate, the findings and observations are taken into account.