STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1906, sig. 109-5/134 Page 82 · 82 of 83
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1906, sig. 109-5/134
English Translation
- 65 - expressed concerns about the inclusion of this action at German authorities, Crha informed the Minister of Agriculture, who was waiting at the Hotel Šroubek with Count Strachwitz, of the negative outcome of the journalistic meeting. It was subsequently withdrawn from the implementation of the planned campaign also in view of the rapid resolution of the crisis. 4. The action against the Czech resistance movement (N.O.) by the secret state police continued as planned in April; only in Moravia could about 75 people be arrested in the course of the unstoppable roll-up of the functionary apparatus. Again, evidence has been provided that intelligence forms the backbone of the illegal resistance groups; among the 75 arrested there are 2o Czech teachers, several officials, a station manager, etc. The arrested belonged to the districts or districts of the N.O. in Brno, Iglau, Moravian-Ostrava, Ung.-Hradisch and Wall. Marxists The removal of the administrative apparatus and the membership of the illegal KPČ was systematically continued by the secret state police with very good successes. No more can be said about a central leadership of the KP Č; the still weakly active communist group of the Budweis district was rendered harmless by the arrest of more than 5o persons. The number of communists arrested in Bohemia and Moravia in the worn-out report range is over 25o. The start-up work in Bohemia took place in the individual circles or in the context of the war. Bezirken fölgenden Geschichte: In the district of Prague-City the arrest of two cell leaders and a liaison man to the central administration made it possible to evict