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

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98 -3 Benesh government in the Protectorate, the university professor Dr. Krajna. Krayna was arrested with several of his first colleagues and his news system was captured. He lived and worked in the protectorate for three years and was able to escape his arrest time and again. The material collected by the Communists and the Czech resistance movement contains radio messages that provide valuable clues to the enemy's plans for the future. A found letter from Benesch and a letter from the Czech-Slovak Minister of War in London, General Ingr, show how London views the military and political situation and what they plan for the Future. A new group of parachute agents has been made harmless. It can be concluded from the material concerned that a larger number of parachutists will be sold in the protectorate in the near future. Civilian forces of the police and selected Germans constantly monitor the behaviour of the Czechs on the streets, in the locals and in the districts and intervene most strongly, where hostile counterpropagans and incitements are shown. The autonomous government works technically well, politically it is reserved, except by Minister Moravec. In order to give proof of their position as a leader in the current military situation and of the increasing sentiment in the Czech people, President Dr. Hácha has offered the Czech government force, some 6000 men, for the leader for the front-line operation, after a long period of discord. After consultation with Reichsminister Dr. Lammers, this proposal was rejected on the basis of the clear decision of the Führer that no techeche should come to combat, but should only work. Dr. Hácha and the government were called upon to use all the forces that they should have used in the people to understand the front line of the government force to obtain the best support for the new labor interventions in the population. Háha was greatly relieved according to this communication.