STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2539, sig. 109-12/186

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2./ b Circle leader complain about me". Bobak told us that, on his astonished question, he had learned from the person concerned that the representative of "joy and work" had taken this path some days before and caused him great inconvenience.As I could see, the advertiser in Prossnitz was the same advertiser who visited the "Národní Politika" and "Polední list". This is the commission agent Monday from Berlin. At my request, the advertising director of the magazine "Joy and Work" for the Protectorate, Mr. Gerlach, had forbidden Monday's further activity as an advertiser for this magazine in the Protectorates and had arranged for him to call on me again on this matter.For this purpose, Monday appeared with me today.I had him in the presence of the official of the Stapoleitstelle Prag Mr. After the brief interrogation, Giesing took the Monday into custody.This measure was preceded by a long-distance call between me and Commissioner Kruple, in which I informed Mr Krupke that the group leader, on the point of view of Mstehe, had to proceed against such pests with the sharpest means./ I should like to refer to the personal discussion. with the group leader on 29.3. Monday has naturally denied having worked in his advertising activities with means of printing, the Stapo official Giesing told me a few hours after the arrest of Monday telephonically that he had gone with him to the Hotel Alcron,where Monday inhabited an apartment for which he paid daily RM 25.--. The apartment shared on Monday with two Czech bar ladies from a Brno bar.The wife of Monday lives in the Palace Hötel in Moravian-Ostrava.The official also found that on Monday one of the two bar ladies had accused him of having been infected with a venereal disease. On Monday, before following the Stapo official and having paid the hotel bill on his instructions, the two women handed over an amount of RM 200.--.As the Stapos found out from the order books of Monday, in March, he completed subscriptions for 449 copies of the magazine he represented in the Protectorate, mainly from Czech offices.For each piece, the advertiser received RM 3.50, so that in March he received a proyision of RR 157l.50 for his cunning advertising activities alone.