English Translation

- 2 - 135 During the whole month of November, the obligation of protectorate members to work in the Reich continued to employ the Czech population to a large extent and gave it a welcome opportunity to make a German-enmous whisper propaganda. Due to the numerous rumours that those who were patterned to work mainly in areas at risk of air pollution or to work directly behind the front and will no longer return to the protectorate, a strong unwillingness and a great fear became apparent. Through easier self-mutilation, auditions with Germans, protection, premeditated pregnancy, etc., the Czechs often tried to evade this obligation. Numerous letters from already working Czechs in the Reich, in which they complained about poor nutrition and accommodation, increased the fear of a work assignment. In the case of transports to the railway stations, there were, therefore, several moving farewell scenes, which often assumed a monstrative character. However, the release of the university studies for Czechs at the high schools in the Reich has found a positive reception in large Czech circles. Despite an immediate whispering pro- ganda that only the purpose of German on the one hand is to Germanize the Czech youth, a large number of Czech high school students already came forward in the short term. In many cases, however, the willingness to take up university studies in Germany may also be based on the intention to free oneself from a work obligation in this way.