STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1793, sig. 109-5/21

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Doa 2 In the ordered flag, it is noticeable that in some places the entire population is involved, while in other areas, except in public buildings, there is almost no flag. Apparently, the more or less loyal attitude of the authorities is asserted here. With regard to the Czech press, it must be said that the local newspapers as well as the large daily newspapers in connection with the political events in Europe almost daily point out how clever the behaviour of the state president was in March 1939, that open-minded, rich or anti-German-phobias did not occur. Several people were arrested or warned because of anti-German aberrations. A Czech man was arrested because he had spent himself as a commission=sar of the Gestapo and had committed blackmail under this pretext. c) Czech party movements: In the middle of Moravia, the "National Social = Czech Workers' and Construction Workers' Party", leader of the First Lieutenant, M l č o c h from Kremsier, wins more and more supporters. This party is opposed to the "national community", but also rejects the right-wing groups of the National Social Camp ('Vlajka', fascists) because of their bourgeois ealtro attitude. Their supporters recruit mainly from workers and small farmers. Their program is the program of the NSDAP. with too= cut to the Czech people. Their election cry: 7332 "A kingdom, a leader, a regime!" The N.S. officials of the Protectorate authorities, who are working to suppress this movement by all the means left to them, call it disguised Communism. In the area of Iglau, the greater activity of the National Community is moving forward. In several places, senior officials, such as District=