English Translation

In recent weeks there has been an increasing increase in the anti-German sentiment in the broadest circles of the Czech population. The whispering propaganda, which was obviously based on the reports of the enemy radio, ran at full speed and now pounced through its slogans and rumors also those sections of the population, which were so far less due. The conviction that the military collapse of the Axis powers was imminent, and that the liberation hour of the Czechs would soon come, expressed itself in a confident and victorious attitude, which had already shown its effects in various ways, This anti-German attitude was often displayed with a challenging openness, and while it had only shown itself in the Czech intelligentsia and the middle classes, in the past few weeks it increasingly also exposed itself to the workers' and peasantry; even hitherto friendly Czechs became wrinkled in their attitude and withdrew from German circles. Through this development, the growing resistance will of the Czechs experienced a strong boost and the willingness to comply with the slogans of foreign broadcasting gained ground. In detail it could be determined in a partial observance of German instructions and orders, in a once again almost exclusive use of the Czech language in Czech offices, in conscious rejection of the German greeting, in an unfriendly and rejecting behavior against Germans, in threats to German-friendly Czechs, etc.