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

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81 - 66 - of a further 31 persons; in the district of Böhm.Brod, Schwarz- kosteletz and Ritschan were arrested in two accesses, including 76 persons, mostly officials and active members.The records of the Budweiser Kreis-leitung establish the lack of mass work; the most important support is currently only available in the company organisations. Further actions were successful in the district of Petschek (ÖLB Kolin), Holitz (OLB Pardubitz), Wittingau (OLB Budweis) and elsewhere. In Rakonitz (OLB Kladno) it was possible to penetrate the technical apparatus, which had dealt with the reproduction of the illegal magazines "Prawda" and "Svoboda"; in Pilsen a material starting point with couriers and other functionaries was excavated. In Moravia, the dismantling of the KPČ organisations in the Moravian-Ostrava district continued; it speaks for the toughness of the membership, when despite paralyzing access it partly tried to re-establish the crushed party apparatus. However, the beginnings could be suffocated as soon as in the bud; leading men of the second operating set (including an official of the Agit. Prop. office and his deputy) were arrested. The detainees recruited for the most part from the working class; it is worth noting that in connection with the winding up of the KPč in the district of Moravia-Ostrava, a pastor of the Roman Catholic Church in Laibenhau and a priest of the Bohemian Moravian Church in Devil's Village were arrested. The flying blow of the KPČ was quite small: A flying blow in Moravia-Ostrava hopes the rescue of the communists only by a revolution against Hitler; the broad masses would have a great power in hand, Russia would come to help and wait for only until the Communists started. A Prague leaflet shouts that the war has ceased to be a European affair; it contains attacks on the U.S.A., where the working class is terrorized by capitalist magnates.