English Translation

40 The Stellv. Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia Report on the works and events in the period from 2. 9. to 3. 11. 42 The political situation and mood of the Czech population are essentially unchangeable since the last report.The listening of the enemy transmitters resulted in a constantly growing whispering propaganda. Apart from the acts of resistance of individual small groups, peace and order prevailed. Even the 28th October (1918 Day of the founding of the state of the Czechoslovak Republic) for the first time in this year offered the image of an ordinary week and working day throughout the Protectorate. There has been a slight increase in the number of workers in the armaments and mining industries since the introduction of the ten-hour day. Female workers have experienced a fall in the hours worked (ten-hour days too much for one woman). The maintenance of labour performance and political status in the armaments industry and in the mining industry are positively influenced by the increase in bread and meat rationing granted to the Protectorate according to the rates of the rest of the Reich. The preparatory work for the establishment of further armament plants is under way. Workshops for this are in part available. The difficult question of the procurement of the necessary energy remains, however. The completion of the Stiechowitz dam near Prague and the expansion of the Seestadtl power plant in the Sudeten- land would help as quickly as possible. The patterns of Czechs of the 1921/1922 vintages carried out for the work in the Altreich attracted the Czechs very much. The harvest is brought in without any difficulties. Despite new requirements (take over of the diet of the Wehrmacht and increase