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• shot and all the members fled , Ilunted by the Gerrans who put 2,000 of th0 in the
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Helms opinion of this episode is that the German r adr c.,{t
fearing a repiti- • 1
tion,of the plot of 20 July 1944, removed all stay-behind activities, which the5ncon-
sidered political .,.from the army, and assigned this responsibility to the SS. Kurelis.,
- under the direction of the 112th Comb. Int. group, was considered -- in addition
to everything else - unreliable. The reason that this same fate did not meet H ancitha,
ITS, was that the P.Ps, prior to the liquidation of Kurelis group, Was transferredson'..:-
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their: own to and came under the jurisdiction of the "JAGINERBANW.Which',
was theineWlycreated BB department charged with this neww SS assi@mnent-tIcotitral•
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inci.direction of staybehind matters:
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• front having become stabilized, the 212th tomb Int . group returnectio.
*Via and continued its,attivity of dispatching agents behind theRussien lines, for
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straight military'pupposes and aims. As already mentioned this group then had.laSt',;•,
all staAbehind responsibilities, though it still did keep up contact With the PPS. . .
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. ,: ., (29) With the German retreat from Estonia, rumors in Riga had'itOhatihe
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"tonians:menaged to proclaim their independence and establish atem0Orirk'gaVeilmient'::;
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' sbrodint about some streetfighting With the German Army remhants:.
a example the Latvians also began to plan such a government thich would aisuke,, •
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Mf.er-.:with:the aid of the Latvian Legion. Rikards from PPS was assigned. the liaison
*th;•this. proviaional government /99/ which had made all preperations,t6,tlee::.
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6•WsSden.if, there appeared difficulties from either the German or Russian si0e . -,H044+fv7
...hit - project : taiied . cOmpletelywhen6st. Col zeni4s, oile of the inatigitbrs-%reVea
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thi .aassret- WheR Under the influence of alakoi. As suspected no drastic-measures
era :taken . bk . tha German authorities, who did send some of the Major'figilies*o
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ie PPS which waarinformed. of this..projectf,a114 .eNie.9t.e4:4;*iht.:i4e:...14044!0
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cif.--OOMMUniaating with the pro , vernmen ._ _ .
s-sovernmezit . in its move from .Latyte.:.
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