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

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21a/ i.R.B i l y., since he held a command at the time of the Republic in Pilsen and was therefore particularly well known in the intelligence. In particular, his high age is emphasized and explained that a person at this age can certainly not become so dangerous anymore. Great panic and fear arose from the last death sentences especially among the legionaries, who fear arrests also among them. Medium-sized circles express that the foreign heresy propaganda these events are all the more an occasion for an even greater incitement of the Czech. This will mean that the Czechs will no longer have their own government at all in the future and that their rights will be increasingly restricted. Czech workers hope to improve the supply situation through the sharp action of the deputy Reichsprotektor and declare that such radical measures would also be taken in this regard. Whispering propaganda spreads a rumor that the Czechs who had already been executed had been supported in their activities by members of a anti-German movement, which is to be made up of Reich Germans, some of whom were active in the vicinity of the former Reich Protector. The vast majority of the Czechs do not count these events to the deputy Reichsprotektor, but to State Secretary Frank, who for a long time has been plotting against von Neurath and working towards his dismissal. The official reasons for the departure of the Reichs-protector by illness is nowhere believed. Proves that Neurath had to resign, it is spread that the passenger car of the Reichsprotector, which came from Prague on 27.9.4l through Pilsen, was overcrowded with 4-leaders, which also suggests a restriction of personal freedom. On the other hand, the rumor is spread that large amounts of Neurath and Frank had been embezzled and had gone fugitive. 2.) Individual events On the 30th of September afternoon, two German women observed in the Kramař promenade in Pilsen, as from the owner of one of the 9CTO9