GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 989, sig. 110-9/5 (damaged)

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09 - 14 Invasion into Yugoslavia dropped the mask and it began to ferment in the country, was again rapidly increased and the haunting was soon done. When, at the beginning of the war against the Bolsheviks, insurrectional approaches were again shown, sabotage acts were carried out, trade and black slaughter increased, and new resistance organizations were revealed, the leader of the Y-Obergruppenführer Heydrich instead of the Lord v. Neurath and it was secretly succeeded by comprehensive measures in the shortest period of time to restore the absolute calm and earth. After the cowardly murder of Reinhard Heydrich, which by the way, as is known, by our measures of the Czech resistance movement, the backbone is broken for a long time. As you know, we seized the assassins and their immediate helpers in question after several hours of fighting in the Karl Barromaeus Church and made Ahtion harmless and, in the course of these measures, executed a larger number of the so-called helpers' circle in the shortest possible time with the help of stand courts. Two Czech villages, the village Liditz and the village Ležaki, in which parachutists had found shelter, were also destroyed. It is an all-encompassing fact that the Czech people experienced the most serious crisis since the establishment of the protectorate until 2 June 1942, the day of the arrest of the assassins. The whole of the Czech Republic