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written telex message from SD service Pilsen FS No. 2344 of 1.10.1941 8.15 am Recorded by telex Eb. 1.10.1941 10.15 am in Prague Betr.: Tagebericht Nr. 226/41. 1.) General mood. S Only in the course of yesterday evening and today has the Czech population become involved in an extensive confrontation with the last events.The last impulse for this was the announcements about the first death sentences spoken, which were applied to business audiographs, etc., very numerous. The departure of Neurath is generally regretted and declared that he was a nobleman in the truest sense of the word, with which the Czechs would have continued to understand each other well. However, Neurath had resigned, because he could no longer see the tyranny of the Czechs, which Frank had driven, and because he had also realized that he had already represented a lost cause. However, he no longer wanted to participate in the current "police regime". Often the departure of the Free Lord of Neurath is also associated with an imminent change within the Reich government. Thus it is spread that a new so-called general government is soon set up, in which the leader is only symbolically involved and without decisive influence. By whispering pro - paganda it is spread that the present situation is to be compared with the immediate before the overthrow of 1918. The best proof for this is that the "policeman", as th-Obergrup- penführer Heydrich is often called, has had to take over the place of the imperial protector. But it has. Not only in Bohemia and Moravia, but also in Holland, Norway and Yugoslavia, numerous acts of sabotage had already occurred, which were no longer to be stopped by the right to stand. On 28 October, in this way, the whole of Europe in - 2 -