STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2185, sig. 109-9/9 (damaged)

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- 10 - 25 In part, it was also necessary to draw from statements that the Czech people should be given the assurance of a better future in the event of probation and co-operation. A particular impression was also left by the fact that Bohemia was the core country of the empire, from the German Wehrmacht to the most extreme. There were numerous statements of satisfaction about the fact that the Czech industry leaders had also joined the rally, who felt that they were particularly concerned with it. To people who had not known such rallies so far, the organization and the external image made an extraordinary impression on how it could be taken from various remarks. In individual cases, the fact that the young people were able to sit was contested, while the industrialists, mostly older men, were only left late in the hall and had to stand in the corridors. Prague, March 15, 1943.