STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 595, sig. 109-4/342

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161 - 3 - more pamphlets were found. The immediate search, which was carried out around three o'clock in the morning, resulted in a surprising result. More than 60oo already completed pampHlets could be seized by a small printing house, copying and typewriters. In this context, several members of the gang, l6, were arrested on the spot. The leader was - and this is typical - a Jewish woman in charge of Topolchan, named Prince, who had studied for a long time at the Vienna University of Applied Sciences. The national composition was, by the way, quite colourful, as apart from 8 Jews, 2 Czechs and some Slovaks were still arrested. The investigation in this sensational affair is not yet complete, but it is already clear today that the English secret service has its hand in the game here. The police are going through. We know that the English agents are not allowed to be stopped in their work by the fact that our authorities are tightly packed. One leaves in the newspapers of a suddenly reappeared communist propaganda in eastern Slovakia. The investigations have shown that the authors of this propaganda are not paid from Moscow, but from London, in certain intellectual circles and circles of the capital a Czechoslovak and Panslavist propaganda has been noticeable for some time. In this effort, in the detour through Benesh, its origin is in London. However, we also have evidence that the propaganda, which has recently been directed against the unity of the ethnic group and operated with a variety of nonsense rumors, also originated in the Secret Service. Of course, the bearers of this propaganda are primarily the ones that Prime Minister Dr. T u k a in his closing speech on the debate on the declaration of government has described as anti-state elements: Jews, Czechs, Czechoslovaks and corrupters who believe that, according to the tried and tested methods of old Czechoslovakia, by fatherland betrayal, they can fill their bag, in which they can be used as tools of the English secret service. The German ethnic group, as well as the Slovak people, have clearly recognized the dangers that threaten them from this side. They are the last statement of the Prime Minister Dr. Tuka, and above all the speech of the ethnic group leader Ing. Karmasin in Drechslerhau, determined to fight this enemy by all means. Today, the German ethnic group in Slovakia is no longer a confederation of piles of people, but rather a bloc tied together by a common destiny and by the common task and joint work, which has clearly focused on the goal that Adolf Hitler has directed to them, which offers the foreheads of every competing enemy and has cut off his attack.