STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2736, sig. 109-14/39

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89 - 2 - It is of the greatest importance that the stiffening of the anti-German syllabuse more and more spreads to the Czech workers' schsft. The main reason for this is obviously the protectorate, which, especially as a result of the exceptional potato quantity, together with the scarcity and reduction in the quality of bread and flour, and the reduction in production. In the case of potatoes, we have already started grubbing up the unripe medium-early and late potatoes and made deep intervention in the livestock for meat supply.) As a direct consequence of this, there is an increasing lack of work in numerous industrial and agricultural enterprises of the Protectorate and a partly significant decline in performance. Since 1 August, temporary stoppages of work have occurred in 12 cases, also in wartime matters with the nutritional situation of the individual cases. The danger tea aase of the extraordinary ganda and beù perseverance of the schlec rotz of the respective state police gave the ringleaders. In addition, a number of studies were carried out in order to ensure compliance with the given sabotage instructions for four weeks, of which, for example, a large number of telephone calls were damaged in a case such as 1oc