STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1902, sig. 109-5/130

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Protectorate of Bohemia and Nährren 53 Secret Reicfach Political report from 4.11. to 10.12.1942. The military events in Africa and Toulón, the Bolshevik offensive and the increased radio propaganda of the enemy with their hetzparoles stood up and sabotage brought in November a considerable increase in the anti-German voice among the Czechs. A generally joyful and uplifted mood of smaller sabotage actions of a physical angrifésetoes Czech to a German lieutenant in a Prague café house and the political murder of two police guards of the Ürdnungspolizei during a raid on Skodawerke in Pilsen are manifestations of the newly awakened Czech opposition. (The police murderers are fleeting, traces are not; the Czech, who slapped the officer, has been captured and immediately sentenced to death and executed.) - The belief in an early collapse of the Axis powers is strengthened in all Czech population circles.