STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1941, sig. 109-6/33 Page 23 · 23 of 119
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1941, sig. 109-6/33
English Translation
17 - 2 - Mines of 5,000 Kè per night and 2,000 Kè tips on this would not have been uncommon.Today, after the Germans were there, this would have changed fundamentally. The dance girls would have to starve,because one would drink with them, but the Germans would not pay any more table money. At Christmas he would have given them 4 hares from the Esplanade, so that they would be fed up.The Germans made so much money.When I answered, the waiters should be careful, he answered that they were not used to waiters from the past, they did not have to follow the guests.Today they would drink, then the guest would go to the toilet, to the wardrobe, paid 1 K and left the house.The mixer and the superior would have together 30.O00 K irrevocable demands.When i said that had to be proven, he called the mixer, which confirmed that he himself had lost 8.O0 K and the upper waiter l8.O0o K. I asked the blender, who knows how to look at me and knows that I am -man, whether we were also lords of the debtors.He denied this. The count went out for a moment, apparently inquired about me, came back, sat closer to me and introduced himself with the remark I was "also an officer."Then he started about everything that had been done wrong here in the Protectorate and revealed an amazing sympathy for the Czechs for a German.The propaganda before the invasion was missing,the Czechs were not communists,as they would have been called. If he had time today, he would have written the history of the Czech people. I answered in one of the few sentences that I ever spoke during this conversation, that would not be worth the money, that is the Bohemian Moravian country, but not Czechism. Then he said the following: