STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2730, sig. 109-14/33 Page 12 · 12 of 14
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2730, sig. 109-14/33
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Division lv - Group Radio Strictly confidential! Broadcasting and Helldienst Only for personal service use! In own responsibility to destroy test no./o.7/F/Y?! (§353 c RSTGB!) Reports of 17 April 1943. Sender London(18.15 _Uhr,chechiseh): Westfront: Yesterday the German war induatrie was attacked with more than 600 planes. Heavy attack on the Schkodawerkd in Pilsen,37 machines not returned. Targets in Mannhein and Lud-wigsatten are attached. Target in Frankgeich, Belgium, Holland attacked. Last night arrival of the Germans in South East England, damage low. Mediterranean Front: Further violent attacks by the Allied Air Force on targets in Tunisia, Sicily and Italy. Heavy fighting at Medjes El Bab. Allied scouting in Tunisia. Eastern Front: Heavy fighting on Cuban, German counterattacks defeated. 11 gürger der Czechoslovakei! The British Air Force attacked the Schkoda factories in Pilsen yesterday night. Hundreds of British bombers of the Lancaster type and Halifax were yesterday over your city of Pilsen. They were your friends and allies who came to fight for your side. They came thousands of kilometers to fight against the Nazi tyranny. They threw their bombs on the Sehkoda works, which produce the vaffes that kill your Russian brothers, and sink English and American ships; and they are used so that the Czechoslovak people can no longer breathe in freedom. The Germans moved a large part of their war industry to Pilsen to escape the bombing by the British Air Force. This attack by the UK Air Force is not an isolated case. Essen has already been destroyed. The German force of arms is being destroyed. A Czech pilot who participated in the attack describes the course of the bombing. "The Germans report nothing of the attack aul Pilsen, but only of the one on Mannheim and Ludwigshefen. Deutscnland on the move: the war industrial centers of Germany are evacuated. Germany gets to know what war means in its own country. The Schkodawerke are perhaps the most accomplished German war industriewerke of Germany. They too will experience a fate similar to that of Eesen. Yesterday's powerful attacks on the Schkodawerke, *annheim and Lud- wigshafen have led to the superiority of the British ventilation weapon over the German. In "Reich" Goebbels tries the bold promises of Hitler, Görings