CZECHOSLOVAKIA
BEFORE THE CARVING
15
A 1444. He
was instructed, by Leader Wilhelm
May of Dresden, to report to the Henlein Party headquarters
upon his arrival in Prague. Clas, alias Voigt, arrived October 23,
and saw a man
1937, reported at the Sudeten Party headquarters
whom I was unable to identify. He was instructed to report
had not
again four days later, since information about the agent
and numbers
i
yet arrived.
Voigt was trained in the Gestapo espionage schools in Potsdam
and Calmuth-Remagen. He operates directly under Wilhelm
May whose headquarters are in Dresden. May is in charge of Ges
tapo work over Sector No. 2. Preceding the granting to Hitler of
the Sudeten areas in Czechoslovakia, the entire Czech border
espionage and terrorist activity was divided into sectors. At this
writing the same sector divisions still exist, operating now across
the new frontiers. Sector No. i embraces Silesia with headquar
ters at Breslau;
No.
2,
Saxony, with headquarters at Dresden;
at Munich. After the an
3, Bavaria, with headquarters
nexation of Austria, Sector No. 4 was added, commanded by
and No.
Gestapo Chief Scheffler whose headquarters are in Berlin with a
branch in Vienna. Sector No. 4 also directs Standarte II which
stands ready to provide incidents to justify German invasion
"because
the situation has got out of control of the local
authorities."
Another way in which immigration authorities, especially in
of antries surrounding Germany, can detect Gestapo agents is by
the position of stamps on the German passport. Stamps are placed,
in accordance with German law, directly under the spot provided
them on the passport on the front page, upper right hand
corner. Whenever the stamps are on the cover facing the pass
port title page, it is a sign to Gestapo representatives and Con
sulates that the bearer is an agent who crossed the border hur
riedly without time to get the regular numbers and letters from
for