A secret message
Miloslav Moulis spent nearly two years in the Amberg penitentiary during the Second World War. As a convict, he had to work in the local mine where he sometimes managed to get some information about what was happening in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. As was customary, he informed the other prisoners of the news he had learned with the help of secret messages. While he was handing over one such message at the end of May 1942, he was arrested by the guards. "When I was caught by the guard, I was really scared. Although we didn’t know what they were doing to the prisoners, it was clear to us that it had to be horrible things. I was punished by having to spend three weeks in the bunker, as it was called. It was a solitary confinement, almost a dungeon. I stayed in solitary confinement for the remainder of my sentence, which was still half a year. The biggest fear I had, however, was that the warden might inform the Gestapo about it, because he would always threaten me with this", recalls Mr. Moulis. This concern – as it turned out – was well justified. Although Mr. Moulis was released from jail at Christmas 1942, the next arrest came only six months later. This time there was no trial, and Mr. Moulis was sent directly to the Buchenwald concentration camp. For many years after the war, Mr. Moulis didn’t know what led to his second arrest. He only found out many years later when he had the opportunity to take a look into his file in the State Archives in Prague. In it he found a German translation of that intercepted secret message: "28 May, 1942: Boys, the Protectorate is going through the Via Crucis again. The Reich broadcast announced today that Reinhard Heydrich was assassinated. He was mortally wounded, but that’s unfortunately all we know. The frontiers of the Protectorate were hermetically sealed and special security measures were taken across the entire country. The political consequences are not known, but I anticipate that they will be extensive and extremely painful", cites Miloslav Moulis from his message.
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