STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2466, sig. 109-12/113 Page 3 · 3 of 32
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2466, sig. 109-12/113
English Translation
The district councillor D16g Znaim, the 4th of January 1940. Znaim. Büco of the state fekcetües bein Reichspeotektor in Bohemia and Mahren. Eing. 8. JAN. 1940 To Mr. Tgb. ne:225 State Secretary K.H. Fr a n k Prag. Hradschin. From a trusted comrade, whom I personally know well from the time of battle from the Sudetenland, I received the following report on the mood of the people of the Protectorate, which he, in turn, received from a Czech, whom he personally knows, confidentially. The Czech in question is based in Olomouc. The messages of the mentioned Czech had the following content: The development in the Protectorate of the coexistence between Germans and Czechs would not take the direction desired by the German government and which was taken by the Czech sham government Hácha. In President Hácha, the average Chechnya does not see the representative of his people or country, but rather the whispering propaganda carried by fairly broad sections of the population, declare Háha a traitor, while Dr. Benesch is still regarded as the president of the state. Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to thank the President-in-Office of the Council for his excellent report on the situation in the Czech Republic. In the fact that no Sudeten Germans are admitted to the protectorate administration, as it is led by the Reichsprotector, the Czechs see it as a favourable option for them, because the Old Reich Germans are not biased towards the Czech and do not feel hateful as they do from the full-fledged Z