STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1906, sig. 109-5/134 Page 8 · 8 of 83
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1906, sig. 109-5/134
English Translation
6 sehon anthem by a German police music corps caused various surprises, with satisfaction it was observed above all that both the guests of honour and the German population greeted with a raised hand at the games of the Czech antheme. The participants, but to a far greater extent by the rest of the Czech population in'Pilsen, shared the celebration with dor Bofoundung that it would again provide the reason for a retaliation attack of the English Iuftweapon. The words of the Lord Mayor of Pils, Gogen Benesch, would certainly not be easy to say, but they would be properly answered by English airmen. The celebrations held in the remaining cities of Bohemia and Moravia on the occasion of the renaming of larger streets and squares on the Nahmen Reinhard Hoydrich took place almost exclusively with a however not particularly strong 3e-partition of the Czech population into a thoroughly worthy framework. It is reported from Olomouc alone that only about 50 to 60 Czechs had appeared as voluntary spectators. Germans, however, were very impressed by thissor's celebration and expressed, for example, that they had not yet attended such a worthy celebration. In all these celebrations one had usually had a good impression, it is said: from Budweis, Pilsen, Königgrätz and Brünn, that the Ischechen had done more an external compulsion than an inner part. Different, e.g. Pilsen, Königgrätz, was criticised for not having immediately translated the German-born Redon into Czech, which made it impossible for most Czechs to follow the speeches correctly. Several exceptions were made to the fact that it was not possible for Germans to goow the Czechs and, above all, the Czech workers. While advertising for them with every lie, they always repulse them by such and similar cases and thus practically refuse them the cheapest recognition. In the case of caution, which the Czechs in general - - 7 -