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the Perkonkrusts Hahn met Mitrevics, who informed him that all
the underground work that Hahn had performed during the Com-
munist occupation -- with a few exceptions -- was on either
direct or indirect orders from Feliks Rikards' group. Hahn was
requested to write a report outlining all his activities in
Jelgava and Riga; this report was then given to Rikards' as-
sistant, Aleksandrs Mittenbergs /W.
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(2) The Perkonkrusts, which during the very early days
of the German occupation, was the leading indigenous element in
Latvia, made the following request of the population:
That persons register in the following categories --
Category A - Those persons who had been members of the
Perkonkrusts prior to 1940.
B - Those persons ( who wished to register) whoCategory had worked in the anti-communist underground
during 1940-41 under the leadership and
guidance of the Perkonkrusts or its mem-
bers, yet who had never been members of the
Perkonkrusts.
Category C - Those persons who wished to join this organi-
zation but who had never been members nor
who had never participated in underground .
activities sponsored or led by the Perkon-.
krusts organization.
All of this registering was obviously voluntary and was carried
out with the intention that having been the pro-German faction .
prior to 1940 the Perkonkrusts would now become the Latvian
puppet government under the leadership of Celmins, yet under the
complete direction of the German occupying authorities. Hahn,
as a well-qualified person, joined the aforementioned category
B, not because of political concurrence, but rather because he
believed that well-qualified men with good. intentions belonged
to it.
• (3) The registration, as outlined above, having been
completed in the very early days of the German occupation, two
very definite groups appeared to take shape within the Perkon-
krusts: .(A) Sondergruppe R (RikaZd2.-- the assignment of this
group Wit'tO invesbegate-all Communists' _affairs, locate re-
maining communists, and press prosecution. This group could be
Considered a type of internal political security police. The
results of the investigations conducted by this group were turned
over to the. German authorities, who prosecuted political of-
fenders. It later developed -- and Hahn thought this Odd. --
that in addition to investigating Communists and persons suspected
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