STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1872, sig. 109-5/100

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30 - 29 - there are two men who are said to have belonged to an organization that collects weapons to brew them in a planned coup attempt. One group consists of 20 people, including dåz former Generalé Horacek and four Communist leaders. These people were accused of preparing for HoChverrat and sabotage. These plots have obviously forced the protector of Neurath to retreat for a certain period of time or forever to his goods in Württemberg and to give way to the strong man of the Gestapo Heidrich in order to clarify the situation with the help of the state of emergency and StandreChtes. Von Neurath had his sChweren post as Reichsprotektor since the l3.3. l939, i.e. for a few days after the establishment of the Protectorate. This was a challenging time, filled with conflicts and ZwisChen cases, including the murder of a deutsChan policeman in Kladno in July l939 and the shootings of some tsCheChisCchen students in November of the same year. However, measures such as those now approaching a general state of siege do not yet need to be applied. It is possible that the present events would give rise to a change in the administration of Bohemia-Mähren, so that one departs from the protectorate form with its partial self-administration.What proportion of the arrested Mintster president Elias had in the procuratories, which was indeed sChon among the many ErsChossenes, is not known. From London, it is stated that the accusation against Elias is against the fact that he was "in the service of Dr. BennesChs." That means that a formal trial against Elias will be initiated. Insinuations from Berlin suggest that the unrest in the Protectorate is in connection with the rising resistance against the occupation authorities in all subjugated countries, these assumptions spreChen for themselves. However, it is not to be seen that there is an opportunity for an organized cooperation between the inhabitants of these countries. But certain links between different channels exist, of course, Pie officielle BeriChte about the introduction of the state of emergency and sabotage in one of the occupied countries do not remain any property in the other countries. An action on one place has an impact on other places. The chafings maintain an abnormal form of government suf, waChsen the longer the occupation lasts. Undoubtedly, this is a