STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1991, sig. 109-6/83

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English Translation

-3 - "As Frenchman and officer, all behind the Marshal, upholder of the French unit" The number of Gaullist officers has become small. To confirm these results, Division III had the loyalty to the Marschall signed: of 1300 officers only 40 refused their signature (the Colonel de BANGY had to hand over this inscription). Furthermore, a petition of voluntary officers to fight in Syria without going through France has reached 700 signatures to 1200. Everything in all : - CONFIDENCE in the government. - Consent to the majority of reforms. - Desire of a realistic policy that silences all feelings, however legitimate they may be. - The idea of "collaboration" (although the word was badly chosen and made too many immediate profits shimmer) has made great progress. - The behaviour of the victor has made a favorable impression on the spirits in this sense. - In contrast, the cynical selfish goals of England are put on the page light.- We believe to know that in the majority of the Oflag and Stalag the state of mind is similar to the one mentioned above. V - But this is done, a counter-propaganda tries to poison the mental state of the prisoners and to execute their hopes against targets which are not exactly French and this : a) with those who remain. b