STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1906, sig. 109-5/134 Page 9 · 9 of 83
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1906, sig. 109-5/134
English Translation
7 - with comments, negative positions were only occasionally recorded here. Thus e.g. czech intellectuals, but also workers, in Pilgrams and Pilsen, that this whole celebration anyway was a good thing and stood for it more, since the renaming will only be of short duration and the streets and places in the protectorate would soon carry their old names again. Positive statements were only made in isolated sections of the Czech population, who praised and acknowledged Heydrich's caring work, especially for the workers. Czech workers in Pisek, for example, said that they had been best looked after at Heydrich's time and that similar measures, such as the reduction of tobacco products now, would probably not have been troffon if Heydric was still idle. The celebration for the renaming of the Jordan Ufer in Reinhard-Heydrich-Ufer in Tabor took place in a large rally, in which about 13 to 1 400 people participated. Already in the morning hours of May 30th, larger crowds formed in the streets of the city, who marched closed with music bands to the stadium. The large participation, however, is probably largely due to a rumor that was recently spread, which the Nouz also used in the distribution of the cards, according to which the Deputy Reichsprotoktor, the State Secretary and Mrs Heydrich would participate in the celebration and that therefore the participation of sovohi would be controlled by the German and Czech sides. How much most of the Chechens refused to participate in this celebration inwardly and took it as terror, testify to statements such as: "If it were raining, then the whole event could not take place". The disciplining attitude of the Czechs is also characteristic of the lack of discipline during the rally, where numerous Czechs tried to leave the rally place during the German speeches, and even when the entrance gate was blocked, jumped over the fence, so that the police had to intervene. - 8 -