English Translation

- 73 - the Gestapo immediately opened its headquarters after its arrival in Prague; tens of thousands of prisoners have since then passed through the fences of this building, which had been unbuilt in the most sophisticated torture chambers that one can only imagine. There are authentic reports of the heinous methods of interrogation and the physical and moral humiliation of persons who fell into the hands of the "estapo", about the chariots on which the bodies of the dead or half-dead are charged, from the Palais Petschek the way usually leads to prison or concentration camps, where martyrdom begins again. Those who, in turn, have gained the relative freedom granted to the citizens of the Protectorate have rarely left these tortures unharmed and, if they have not suffered any physical harm, and if their nerves have not been killed by the screaming of the tortured, they have been deprived of their last Heller, but each of them, before he leaves the building, must write down a declaration in which he confirms that he has been deputised and that his property has been returned to him sel,The number of persons who have been arrested in provincial cities and on flat land cannot even be approximated,In the middle of l939 Czech circles in the Protectorate gave the number in concentration camps in Germany, especially In Dachau and Oranienburg and in the Cefängnissen held persons with about 70.O00. According to the latest information, however, this figure has long since been exceeded. No strata of the population have been spared from the negotiations. For example, the entire administrative staff of the Land Office with its president at the head was arrested by Germans,