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Abscihrift. SV I 1.10.1941. AZ:Arch.: An Z Betr.: Mood among the local Germans. Vorg.: Ohne. Ein Gewährsmann reports: "The elimination of the Reich Protector Freiherr von Neurath is generally welcomed as a cleansing pat. After all, it had been so that the Reichsprotector and his Reichs-protector officials had raised a noble economy from which a king of Bohemia had to develop later, who also relied on the Czech nobility. His encounter and invitation of the Czech nobility a year ago has caused a lot of bad blood among the local Germans, and his hunting trips with the Czech aristocracy have done a rest. As a result, a strong alienation has taken place: with the National Socialist people's association, this unit of government has gradually developed a civil servant's apparatus as a state in the state. The party felt that the exposure and the ever greater isolation of the Reich Protector and his apparatus, as well as his disinterestedness, were becoming more and more pressing, especially since the state sector was in its fullness of power and the imagination on its perfection increased. In comparison with these factors, the party abated and sank to a better association, instead of a cohesion of the whole German element taking up the closed struggle with Czechism. By giving the party dictatorial orders to Lord von Neurath, the first disputes arose. Instead of drawing the party to the fullest extent to the necessary work here in the fighting area, nothing has been achieved with Wilhelminian diplomatic work alone, but has been strengthened by the Czechs' backs. /