STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2741, sig. 109-14/44

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- 2 - 109 National Songs to stormy demonstrational rallies. On 27.4.1939 the Wilson monument in front of the Wilson train station was demonstrably decorated with flowers without any occasion. Czech officers carry their military uniforms, even those that had previously mostly gone in civilian. When they meet German officials, they turn their backs on them in many cases or go by without greetings. The greeting of German military personnel is often casually or not at all reciprocated. On May 1, 1939, the CNs community in Prague had issued the slogan "Out to the Country" to depopulate the city and thus document the Czech people's aversion to the German National Day. On May 1, 1939, a political assembly, disguised as an ecclesial pilgrimage, was held on Mount Żip, which was attended by almost 90,000 people. Contrary to the previous years' practices, the state and city buildings (except the Ministry of Transport), trams, etc. were not flagged on 1 May 1939. In Luzice near Göding, on the night of May 1st to 2nd, a transparency with a figure of leader and a badge was cut up at the house of the customs guard. The figure of the leader was cut in the height of the neck, the lower part torn out and removed.