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

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M - 61 Two loyal Czech farmers from Dobrohosht (OLB Iglau) are harassed and insulted by the Czech population and severely disadvantaged in the forced delivery of the citizen's family. A Czech innkeeper in Wrabi (OLB Jütschin) is boycotted by the whole Czech population of the village because of his German-friendly attitude; as well as the inn host in Neu-Benatek, who in 1939 accommodated German soldiers and had eaten the swastika flag. A German-friendly Czech private official was attacked by the carpenter Mlejnek of the aircraft factory in Chotzen (OLB Pardubitz) with a shovel, who shouted to him: "You Hitler boy, we will deal with you already." The Czech whisper propaganda was primarily about foreign policy events. The military stocks in the Balkans were the reason for various combinations and increased the pan-lawist-determined hopes of the Czechs on Soviet Russia. The rumors that have already been rebutted by the events spoke of a "counter-axis" of Turkey-Greece-Yugoslavia and expected an advance of the South Slavs through the Eastern Mark to the Czechs. Russia is already one of the enemies of the empire, and the confrontation is predicted for the spring of 1942; this was allegedly confirmed by the meetings of Måsuoka in Moscow, which had provided Russia with the necessary backing. In the internal political sector there were rumors of an imminent confiscation of several years of Czechs to certain labor disputes during the war (Colin, Kladno, Budweis, Prague). Expatriation addictions were again concentrated around Wischau (OLB Brno), where it is claimed that the Czechs there should be deported to South Slavia. A significant rumor circulates in the OLB Klattau, where it was told on the occasion of the illness of some Czech children on sheep leafers that this disease had been introduced by German soldiers and German families; the Czech district physician and the city doctor, to whom these rumors are known, did not try in the least to refute them. On the other hand, rumours about an intentional harmful vaccination of Czech children appeared. German-hostile leaflet actions were not recorded on a large scale in the late weeks.