GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 932, sig. 110-8/4

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English Translation

After the train had arrived again, the last criminal sprang out of the moving train. Lancha immediately pulled the emergency brake and alarmed the gendarmes of the railway border control service and the railway personnel operating in the sidecar. The prosecution of the criminals was immediately taken up. However, in the resulting tumult and in the darkness they were able to escape. The Gend.-Posten Hnojnik, the Pol.-Borderposten Woikowitz and the Protectoratsgend.-posten Dobrau were immediately alerted. The German Gend. - Kommando Friedeck was informed of the incident at 20.00 o'clock. The leader of the German Gende.-Commandant Friedeck immediately put 2 mot. stripes in the direction of Wokowitz - Hnoynik in march to search for the perpetrators. In addition, the Prot.-Gendarmeriekommando Friedeck was informed of the attack, which on its own initiative alarmed and deployed all Gend. posts on the border. Gestapo and Kripo. in Moravia-Ostrava were informed. The search carried out went without results. The investigation led to Geh. state police Moravian-Ostreau. Nach fernmündel. In consultation with the head of the Gestapo Moravian-Ostrava, the persons travelling with Lantscha in the same compartment were identified and heard. The statements are in line with the statements of the Lantschah. According to the previous findings, persons who have their stay in the district of Teschen - Olsa area - are likely to be considered as perpetrators. Suspected persons from the Protectorate have not been identified so far. According to statements of the raider and fellow travellers, the perpetrators spoke German and Czech,- a Russian. It can be assumed that they are escaped prisoners of war or deserters, who want to provide themselves with wafis. It is not excluded that parachute jumpers (communist agents) are involved. The search for the perpetrators is continued. As a better security of the eastern border of the Protectorate seems necessary, I have arranged: