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

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14S - 3 - also decided to significantly increase the DRC donation on this occasion in a piating. Various individual cases are characteristic of the largely loyal attitude of Czech workers' circles. Thus, yesterday the district authority in Schüttenhofen expressed the assignments of the companies Solo and Schwarzkopf condolences. In the Witkowitzer Eisenwerke, the Works Committee yesterday received the notification of the death of the Deputy Reich Protector in a dignified meeting with visible sympathy and decided to send condolences to Oberstgruppenführer Daluege and President Hácha. In the course of detailed observations it was possible to establish with the staff of the Erünner Waffenwerke that about 80 % of the people were seriously convinced that they disapprove of the attack and showed sincere sympathy for the death of the head of the group. Various places also resulted in a different form of movement and apprehension when the death message became known. Even simple women had tears in their eyes. The working class is generally less pessimistic because of its personal fate and thinks that nothing can happen to it, because, as always stressed, it fulfils its duty to work properly and is least responsible. The news of the death of the Obergruppenführer has given rise to numerous rumors in various places. Thus, in the OLB Zlin it is spread that every hundredth Czech should be shot if the perpetrator is not investigated.