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

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23 - 2 - Weapons, several Ztr. Lebens- und Gesüssmittel, 1 Radiogerät, Cigaretten und Tabak were seized. In the midnight hour the late #-Obergruppen leader H e y d r i c h was transferred from the hospital to the Prague Castle in the ceremonial procession. President H a c h a sent a telegram to the leader expressing his and the government's deepest sorrows and indestructible fidelity to leaders and empires, as well as the apprehension of all forces for the overthrow of England and the refugees. The declaration adopted in yesterday's extraordinary meeting of the government, in which the advantages of the upper group leader and his good opinion of the Czech working people are remembered and in which, to the best of its ability, the Czech people demand the approval of this loss of the kingdom, was read by Minister M o r a v e c on the radio. The telegram and the declaration of government were published in the Fres se. The mood of the German population is characterized by increasing bitterness and an ever stronger desire for sharpest retaliation measures. - The crushing pressure on the Czechs is helping. Compassion can only be found in the labour force. The hostile radio, which continues to accompany the death of the upper group leader with hateful descriptions of his person, tries to give the impression that the assassination of the beginning of an uprising of the Czech people is and that it is now up to the rest of the oppressed peoples to fight freedom by involving themselves in the second front and breaking of Nazi terror. "The European people was the judge, the Czech people of the executors." - 3 -