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

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The intensified measures against the Jews in the protectorate ha-O.0 ben caused the German population the greatest satisfaction. Among the Czechs, who are still very impressed by the court rulings, it is explained that the time will come when the executed ones can be openly celebrated as heroes. Mn even draws comparisons with the German struggle for freedom by pointing out that even a batter who at that time had rebelled against the French invaders had been shot to become a shining example of the jugend. The same had happened in the Ostmark, where the later folk heroes were also made out of those who were then hanged. The fact that the shootings take place in Brno directly under the image of St. Wenceslas, which bears the well-known inscription "Does not destroy our descendants", gives the Czechs plenty of talk. It is explained that this is a cultural inconsistency with respect to the lack of piety in the first place. But if no other place was available, at least this picture could have been imposed. St. Vincent would avenge himself determinedly. Further, nan points out that in Russia the Bolsheviks had murdered among the holy images. The execution of the Czech Josef S n a b 1 from Brno, who was committed to death because of false accusations by Czechs, has caused a great deal of suffering throughout the Czech population and is described as a sensation of first rank. Even known as radical chauvinists, Chechens expressed themselves literally with a powerful gesture: "If the "new one" is like this, then he is our man". The main author of the German-friendly newspaper "Noravské Noviny" in Brno, received calls and letters from various sides, in which he was told that the condemnation of the C0:86