English Translation

The Czech population. Kojetein-Mlčoch- A remarkable example of the eye-catching political conditions in the Protectorate and its impact on the political administration is the city of Kojetei. Kojetein is a city of about 6,4oo inhabitants in a purely rural environment. The inhabitants themselves listen to the agricultural workers' stand. During the campaign 8oo men work in the sugar factory there. Since both the surrounding agriculture and the sugar factory in Kojetein cannot constantly employ the local workers, there is strong unemployment in Kojetein during the periods outside the season and in connection with it great social misery, without any action being taken by the Czech administration to alleviate the hardships. As a result, there was an increasing radicalisation of the population in Kojetein, which was reflected in the last municipal elections of l938 fanö, where 50% of all votes cast were socialists and half of them were communists. With 872 votes out of a total of 3,422, the Communist Party in Kojetein was by far the strongest of the political organizations involved in the election. During the period of the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the so-called "National Socialist Czech Workers and Peasants' Party" (Mlčoch movement) was founded. The founder of this party, former Czech lieutenant colonel Mlčoch, is based in the area of Kojetein and tried to give his opinion first in the city of Kojetein a strong bag-point, in order to at the same time take up evidence of the correctness of his programme points by an ex- ter participation in the common life. Its programme is closely based on the NSDAP's