STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 648, sig. 109-4/396

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-75 - was placed as a victim of a political murder and there was a search for the perpetrator,The entire municipal administration of the city, together with several hundreds of citizens, was arrested and subjected to the most cruel torture,The mayor of the town withdrew from the further tortures by suicide by jumping out of the window. The other arrested Fersons spent several weeks Oder months in the German torture chambers, the murdered German Vurde organized a demonstrative funeral attended by all the leading personalities of the German civilian and military villages, the geneinderate of Kladno was dissolved and since that time the population enjoys the special attention of the Reichsprotector and his agencies. The city was fined a fine of 50,000 marks / 500,000 crowns/. In the city of Tabor, the town of the hysitic leader Jan Žiäka, the socialist Börgeraeister was arrested and cruelly tortured. These are just two of the numerous examples; there is no single city or community of any size in Bohemia and Moravia whose chronicle during the last two years would not be able to report such traps. It happened in some cities that German p'licists or soldiers invaded Czechs without reason, without at least such raids or murder attacks to give the appearance of revenge or reprisal, so in the police station of Nachod a sleeping Czech plicist was killed for no reason by two German plicists. In almost all of these cases, the culprit escaped punishment.