STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1561, sig. 109-4/1315 (damaged)

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- 3 - With the Czechoslovaks, the anti-German voice continues. As far as they are concerned with the speeches of the sports palace rally, these are mostly made laugherly and generally presented as a sign of the weakness of the empire. The positive effect, which was initially observed, was immediately intensified by cine and the whispering propa- ganda. Roden hätton, it was explained, only confirmed the poor situation of the empire on all sides. a Czech, that the Goebbels speech seemed to him so sui, as if there was a mess in the Roich and therefore at the last moment one wanted to save the mood of the German population. The lack in all areas, it is explained many times, forces Germany to put everything on a map to sotzon, which, however, does not use anything, because Doutschland can no longer catch up with the lead of the enemies. Speer's statements are completely unbelievable and it is not worth thinking about it at all. We must reduce the figures by at least 50%, but we must be somewhat close to the truth. Moreover, when Ischechen comments on the ministerial speeches, we would like to draw attention to those points in which it was openly admitted that Germany is currently unable to keep up with the enemy powers. So far, German propaganda has always claimed that the Luftwaffe and the submarines had the strongest weapon for the further course of the war in Germany. Jotzt soi the weakness in this respect was officially admitted. However, the speech is still being interpreted in such a way that, despite all of them, it does not look like that Germany will be stroking the weapons in the near future. In any case, the German leadership reckons with a longer period of war. It is only questionable whether the stupid people will last so long. In general, Pschechen - 4 -