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

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-4- 127 or even Czechs to the smallest extent is criticized and examined, whether it is not a preparation measure for the coming war. The view that it will soon "lose" is very common kxt and in almost every conversation, which Czechs lead among themselves, one hears this remark. Great bitterness prevails over the introduction of the black-yellow street boards. Not only bilingualism in purely Czech areas, but also the colour black-yellow, which evokes old reminiscences to the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, stirs the minds. A improvement of the mood should not occur until it is stopped. It is not to be assumed that the cinema demonstrations, the flower adornment of monuments, the spreading of flyers, the skillfully opened newspaper propaganda etc. are fantane effusions of the Czech people. c/Whisper propaganda. Especially in the suburbs of Prague, the starting points of the present deserted whisper propaganda seem to be: at the appropriate moment, the Prague population would fall over the black troops / the SS/. Therefore, everyone must be careful where these troops are castered. The rest of the regular military would then already participate, because it had already satisfied the constant already already already the present warlike conditions. Hitler would only gwhalen by these black soldiers. Railway workers had told that it looks exactly like this in the South of Germany. General Prchala stands ready with three regiments in Poland to march across the Silesian border into the Protectorate.