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

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t written XXXXXXX SD-Division Olmütz FS Nr. 3117 TOCTOTOETOT 4.10.41, 19.50 h E Tagesbericht Nr. 202/41 The news of executions of Czechs, as well as numerous arrests of the Stapo in the local territory, have caused complete joy among the German population. The arrest of Czech personalities, who had taken the lead in the incitement against Germanism before the founding of the Protectorate, is particularly welcomed. The echo of the leadership speech in German circles is very good. It was already reported in detail that the local Germanism is happy to increase the donations. In addition to the executions of leading Czechs announced, the Czechs are now also able to express their views from the middle classes: a Czech trader in Olmütz said: "The Iumps are quite right, and this should have come earlier. We Czechs have useful work to do, but our Plutocratenclique is directed to the detriment of the people according to instructions from London." On the part of the Intelligenz, it has recently been spread in Olomouc that the Slovak army is demobilized because of unreliability: besides that there have been great communist demonstrations in Floridsdorf near Vienna.- Czech railwaymen in Olmolec were bcobhaltet, as they made ugly and derogatory remarks about German professional colleagues: Bein Herannahen Beutscher they quickly split up. For this purpose, it can be noted in the whole area that Czechs immediately cease harmless conversations in the Middle East of third parties out of fear.-- In Moravian W e s s k i r c h e n (OlB Olmitz), Chechens noticed on the occasion of alustering of the Wehrmacht, on which two