In the early hours of 15 March, the Czech President gave in and signed away what remained of his country. German troops had already crossed the border. The citizens of the capital, Prague, awoke to find swastika standards and field-grey steel-helmeted soldiers in the streets. Behind the columns came Heydrich’s SD-Einsatz staffs, mixed teams of police, Gestapo and SD officials armed with lists prepared from the great card index in SD Section III 225, who directed Einsatzkommandos in the arrest of suspected leaders and ideological enemies, and established police, Gestapo and SD headquarters in
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