"HQ
371st Rifle Division
Personnel department
August 8th, 1942
#0770
To the Chief of Staff of the 30th ARmy
RE: #04/01114
I report that a penalty company could not be organized within the 371st Rifle Division due to a lack of personnel guilty of crimes against the Motherland. The tank units did not send anyone guilty of crimes against the Motherland either.
Chief of Staff, Lieutenant Colonel Sakayev
Staff Military Commissar, Battalion Commissar Popov"
