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

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At about 7 p.m., the arrival of the broad masses began. On the kundgebu, individual groups, probably by stand or factory managers, were checked and attendance lists were checked. The customers were composed of all strata of the population age groups. The majority of the middle class, employees of the public and workers. Among the published were to be seen. The total number of participants on the old town rd to about 45 to 48 000 persons, n repressing ones estimated at un- n. Before the beginning of the customer journeys for overfill locked off gation troupe played during the gss participant marches and folk songs. the members of the government and the Minister and Bienert greeted the crowd at their appearance with the German greeting. The rally was opened by the spokesman of the Czech press office, writer Jaroš. Krejči a short introductory speech of about 7 minutes duration, in which he emphasized in particular the fact that the protectorate government and with it the entire Czech people stood before the court of history, before which it could exist only if it agreed to the empire and to the state president" his speech snowed revolvers in the neck