STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2026, sig. 109-7/33

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English Translation

One of these focal points was from the beginning the Ascher Eipfel and the adjacent area of Eger. There, wülhleric elements could most easily escape from the area of the Kgchbar state before the intervention of our safety organs, from where they were not only aneifered but also supported and let out. That is why, in these days too, this area is being supplied with strong pressure from the outside, and that is why those elements that have fled from our territory to Germany in order to organize the rise of the Republic there. Nowhere else is the activity of these elements as intenaive as it is there. But this by no means diminishes our sovereignty in areas that belong to the core of the state. In these, unfair clements will not enter and will not be allowed under any environment. In the territory of the whole state, the Btaatsbchörden and security bodies have everything in their hands. The state authority will absolutely be maintained here. Everywhere where the rebels, as in the past, have occupied isolated offices, post and customs offices or even more remote mountain communities, they have already been driven out or they are being driven away. The excited Gomüter of the citizens are very easy to believe easily the ridiculous falsehoods. We draw attention to this element of Auelindic propaganda and seek to divide all the spreaders of Alarean news to the national organs. At first glance, it is clear to whom a Kensch serves, who in the morning quite stupidly spreads the incredible nonsense, that for example Marienbad was occupied by the Elenente. By telephone inquiry, you announce to yourself that at this moment in Mariánské Lázně peace reigns and that there there are more administrative problems so funk- tionieren vie here in Prague. As reported officially on the radio, tache-choslovak authorities are in possession of directives, which were sent to the Pro- pagenda Ministry by the Berlin Reichskriegsministerium two months ago. The Ministry of Propaganda was charged with polluting the reputation of the Techechoslovak army through systematic scandalisation and in particular to spread the news that Czech soldiers hung up or shot at the soldiers of other nationalities. The persecution of Slovak soldiers is also to be reported in order to demoralise the Czechoslovak people in this way. The Leipzig station has spread a series of lies in this way: in Preseburg the Garnieon was disbanded, the soldiers of minority nationalities were sent home, the Slovak soldiers refused to fulfil their duty of service. Såldat's Hungarian Nationalitát had shot her co-mandant, who was a Russian from the Soviet Union and had cruelly tortured the ungarish soldiers. In Dux two Slovak soldiers of the artillery regiment No.l had been shot because they had refused to obey technical orders. In Komotau, Soviet eterns were painted on the street, and the cars also carry Soviet flags. All these Žachrichten are pure lies. To the Komotauer message it is noted: "There are no Soviet eternes or pawns on cars with us. On the other hand, in recent times there have been a large number of red stars on posters in the streets of Nuremberg, Germany, in the wake of the great indignation of the German authorities.