THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1779, sig. 109-5/7

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L2 - 2 - still externally reserved, in order to prevent all possibilities of the war exit and not to challenge sharp German countermeasures by premature open resistance. Underneath the surface, however, the rise of passive resistance and hostility against all Germans can be observed everywhere; individual Germans are sought for possibility and budrot + to harass to boycott z, German-friendly Czechs are terrorized in every way. For the European significance of the German struggle against Bolshevism, almost every understanding is lacking, so that even occasionally transparent Czechs say that Czechism had lost its last chance and that it must be clear that the corresponding conclusions of German political leadership cannot be omitted. It is of the greatest importance that the intensification of the anti-German attitude described above is more and more spread to the Czech workers. - 3 -