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

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Confidential Infonmetion ! Report No. , 30 March 1939 158 on the mood among the Czechs of Prague since the Besetzurg 94/4r-60 1/The lowest strata of the population, which still enjoy the social support of the old Aere, are generally opposed to the aid measures of the Reich. It is only in the last few days that the mood in the NSV feed-out has improved. - The good situation of: German soldiers /especially highlighted by the high purchasing power of the Mark in Prague/ makes these lower strata a trusting impression.- The fate of the Jews is not regretted at all by the lower strata; with them Jew is synonymous with "canitalist" and therefore hated. - Great alarm caused among the Prague proletariat the rumor of the declaration of German forced labour camps in the Czech territory, about the standardization and lowering of wages, which should be forcibly introduced by German authorities, - The plush propagan-- there finds, of course, good ground in these selves. 2/ In the circles of the Czechist half-inteligenz, the division in the different directions is clearly noticeable.A cleverly advanced whispering agenda awakens the denial that the former Czechoslovak politicians are working successfully abroad and that an observation of the hente German-friendly forces in the Czech people is necessary for a later "reckoning". - The confusion within the left-wing journey of the techechisc en half-intelligence is understandable; the vote within their legal circles has its reason before all in the condolences of the promised politicians of the old systems / Beran - Cligue/ by the authorities of the empire. Above all, the person Generels Syrovy's great attacks is put out. - The uncertainty in Besug aif the definitive solution of the economic and management questions has contributed in particular to the reproduction of a Banik-like stim- ulation /Hamstern/ in the case of the Kleinbourgoisie.