STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1813, sig. 109-5/41

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V7 - 2 - nowhere to observe. The Czech police tried to take the passers-by away from the road, which they only failed with numerous German soldiers. During the first short alarm the trams often continued their journey. Many curious people had opened the windows to look at the enemy planes. In the private houses air protection rooms were largely not visited; also the front doors were often not properly opened. The blackout was generally not to be objected during the alarm. The air alarm was the day of the Czechs the following day. The whispering propaganda claimed that seven Bristol-Blenheim aircraft had been over the city for a long time, and that such approaches were constantly repeated by Czechs, that the enemy's belief was that the English had eaten the Czechs. A fear that English bombs could be fired on Prague was observed among the gends. O33O Kladno: By the night to 16.2. he followed