THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 442, sig. 109-4/187

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1h - 2 - The Czech station head of Zäitz (OLB Pilsen), who bought a fur issued by the Pilsen Railway Directorate and sent it as a donation for the collection of winter things to a collection point in Smichow, was returned to the fur for no reason. In the last few days in the OLB Klattau, a call was made to the protectorate post offices, according to which Czech postal officials should volunteer for the postal service in the Reich. Reasonable postal officials declared to the call that a commanding into the realm would mean a financial improvement ', that there would be no dare to report any, since it would be called by the others as abbots and traitors. In Bohemian-Brod (OLB Kolin) and elsewhere there is a rumor that the Germans deliberately prevent the heating of the schools in order to inhibit the educational progress of the Czech children. In OLB Iglau the mood of the population is increasingly affected by the extraordinary lack of fuel. In particular, many complaints come from German workers. OLB Tabor reports that, in the case of workers, as with the competent authorities, there is still complete uncertainty about the payment of the working time which falls out of company closures. In Brno, the main topic of discussion is the sighting of a larger number of companies because of the lack of coal, whereby comparisons with the Wetl war are drawn again and again, which most of the Czechs are in favour of Germany. The report from Moravian-Weisskirchen (OLB Olmütz) reports on the particular dissension of the population due to the extremely poor supply of coal. There it was particularly displeasure that the responsible Oberlandrat rejected the creation of coals from the Moravian-Ostrava only 70 km away and four trucks operated with wood gas. In Iglau the complaints increase above the increase in the price of sea fish. For example, the fish trade Pekarek demands 6 Kr. for a salt herring, for 1 kg haddock i4 Kr. and for 1 kg of tuna 28.50 Kr. Since the consumption of seafish as meat substitute has increased significantly during the war, especially in poorer sections of the population, it is now impossible for many working-class families to buy fish. i hboolf