English Translation

17 Secret State Police State Police Department Prague II BM 178/40 g.RS. Prague, June 14, 1940 Secret Reichsssache After the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, an extensive illegal work against the German Reich and the existing legal status was taken up in the Czech people. The aim of this work was to separate the Protectorate from the German Reich and establish a new Czechoslovak Republic. In order to achieve this goal, an extended illegal propaganda is being carried out, a connection was maintained with the Czech National Council in Paris, a intelligence service was established for the enemy powers and it was finally begun to create in the country itself the preconditions for a takeover of power and the power to secure a new state. The driving and leading forces in this illegal Czech work are the intellectual circles. This is no longer surprising if the political attitude of these strata of the Czech people is considered before the establishment of the Protectorate. The majority of the intellectual class at that time was strongly left oriented. This corresponded to the political conception of the decisive men of the state leadership. The left circles were enemies of National Socialism from the outset and became fanatical opponents of the Reich after the takeover of power in Germany. But also the politically right-wing intelligentsia circles were German and richly hostile, whereby only the basis of enmity was another. Their basic conception was based on the contrast between Germanic and Slavic. The Czechs, as outposts of Slavicism, were in their opinion in the first line of this world struggle. On this basis, a German hatred developed, which in its statements was often more radical than that of the Czech left circles. There were only St.S. MB qas