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Prague, December 9, 1942. 144 Gemeims Reiéslade report for the leader until November 10, 1942. The military events in Africa, the Bolshevik offensive and the increased radio propaganda of the enemy with their hetzparoles led to revolt and sabotage in November to a significant increase in the anti-German voice among the Czechs. A generally joyful and friendly mood - smaller sabotage actions - a Czech assault on a German lieutenant in a Prague café and the political murder of two police guards of the police during a night patrol at the Skodawerke in Pilsen are the consequences of the newly awakened Czech resistance lust. (The police killers are fleeting, none trace; the Czech, who slapped the Orfician, has been captured and immediately sentenced to death and executed.) - The belief in an early collapse of the Axis powers is increasingly present in all Czech communities. The entire Czech population is most impressed by the German measures for labour and by the obligation of the years 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921 and 1922 to work in the Reich. Here, too, the London and Moscow Hetzparoles excite the broadcaster, the persistently too open resistance against the deportation of Czech workers to the Reich, as well as the greatest rumors about the poor treatment of the workers in the Reich and the worrying content of many letters