STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1801, sig. 109-5/29

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79 written SD-Dienststelle Pilsen Telegrapher, FS Nr. 2286 2.10.41, 12.45 Uhr Tagesbeticht Nr. 229/41 Pilsen Nr. 237l 2.10. 41 12.15 - EB- An den SD-Leitsabteilung Prag in Prag. Betr.: Tagesbericht No. 229/41 1.) General mood. Mood still very depressed. The workers in the main local enterprises behave completely calmly. Population in general the patrols of the protection police (with steel helmet) in the streets of Pilsen, which have been used since l.o. since.., there was a different opinion that the state of emergency had now also been suspended over the Oberlandratsbezirk Pilsen. The high number of those who have been sentenced to death, particularly those who were sentenced to the death penalty announced yesterday, is often astonished and the question is often raised as to what these people have actually committed. The term "sabotage" or "high treason" without further explanation led, especially in the case of the working class, to a great riddle about the nature of the offence of the Zým condemned. By the Czech rural population the death sentences are received much more calmly and the condemned often as "trotters" etc. The city population, on the other hand, is already partly completely in the wake of the whispering propaganda, although in the public sphere, the unnatural calm continues to persist. The main cause of the events will continue to be the activity of the "Chechenfresser" K.H.Frank, who is responsible for his present action of helping the