STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1906, sig. 109-5/134

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- 5 - voluntary participation on the part of the population - about 3000 Skoda workers had been handed out participant cards and seconded workers' occupational classes joined them closedly - pre-kiltnisnäßig weak. Above all, the event was obviously attended by already young people. Although no direct negative statements were made to this celebration, it could be observed that the majority of the tscaechishon population was completely indifferent to this. If the Czech workers were most represented in the All-Gone workers, as was even said by the Czechs, this was solely due to the fact that most of the participation certificates were issued to the workers in order to document the attachment of the Czech worker W Oborgruppenführer Heydrich. In the case of the Heier himself, only a few Czech workers discussed Heydrich's merits and explained, for example, that he was the one who had campaigned for the social rights of the workers. In the case of the Einzol enterprises, where already days before there were parking cards to the advantage, this was accepted by the workers large- partly only for this reason bosatisfied, in order to serve daiurch a work shift less, or. in the previous night vision already to be able to go home to Mitternncht. In spite of that, various square cards were returned under the most impossible excuses. After the celebration, the Czechs had variously stated that it could not be seen as a German-Czech Community celebration, as the press had pointed out, with the exception of the Czech anthem, which was played according to the German national hymns and which was only taken as a german gesture, nothing had been done about it. As Checho ebon, one had to wait here again until the press informed the talks held. However, with satisfaction the presence of a Czech costume group in the gallery was emphasized several times. Also the playing of the chochi - 6 -