STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2750, sig. 109-14/53

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141 Strictly confidential ! DivisionIV Only for the personal Gunppe Broadcasting Service use ! Broadcasting service To destroy your own responsibility ! 152/1/42 ( R § 353c RSTGB. ) Testnr ...... Berichten__vom_5a62-42. L_o_n_d_o _ 14.00 Uhr (German ): " Czechoslovakia : Another 24 people were shot yesterday as a retaliatory measure for the death of Heydrich. Since the attack on him, a total of l8l Czechs have been executed. Datege Daluege thus continues the hostage shootings especially connected with the name Heydrich, but with the same evil success as this. The German authorities do not bother at all to prove that the shot have anything to do with the attack. Despite terror and an abandoned Judas wage of about 3 million marks, however, no single message has been received, Heydrich is reported to be lying on the Hradshin in Prague. " L o n d o n , 1500 clock ( czech ) The broadcast was partly concealed by jammers. VoThe whole English Presee praises the heroic act of the Czech durc h which has been liberated from the monster He drich all of Europe. Daily Mail" writes that He drich will always live as an exponent of a wicked system, which finally came to the just fate, which will once again seize all his complicities the punishing hand, There is no human being in the whole world, except perhaps Himmler, who is crying after Heydrich a tear. " Daily Herald" observes that it will be difficult for Himmler and Hitler to find a similarly trained man-slayer, such as Heydrich............. It is always the same story, whether shot at Laval, Heydrich or any other worthy Nazi representative, flowing blood and the terror of innocent victims and the initiation of the most sophisticated police apparatus in the world are the consequence. But all those executed only prove how uncertain and unwell the Gestapo and the ss feel in the oppressed countries.......... X