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

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120 written SD department Brno t Telex, FS No. 2308 4.10.41, 00.53 Tagesbericht Nr. 221 Brno 16 911 4.10. 41 0035 -Sch- To the SD-La Prague. Present immediately Betr.: Tagesbericht Nr. 221 The German population of Brno has the hope that it will now proceed in all areas in the Protectorate. One has Fruede about the change of course and reckons with measures, especially in the field of food policy. German voices became loud, the people stressed that also the German locals, with the exception of the Brno German Hauese, fall under the barrage-hour decree of the Reichsprotector and point out that the Germanism must feel offended in its honor. In many cases there is already talk of a new economic damage to the German entrepreneurs. Also the exception for the German House, as well as the liberation of the Lunapark from the exceptional conditions, have caused bitterness in other German enterprises. Today, Bine deputies of German entrepreneurs went to the Brno Police Directorate to obtain an exception for their businesses. Among Brno Germans, the rumor goes that the Czechs had already drawn up a list of German business entrepreneurs for whose businesses Czech trustees would be provided for in the event of a political overthrow. It is clear that the central and intellectual classes are the focus of the judgments of the courts, that the Czech workers are very strongly represented by the establishment of the Special Economic Commands as well as by the announcement of a special control of the meat industry.