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

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35 Moravian Ostrava, 28 February 1943. in0e ncen. -2.MRZ. 1943 To H. SS-Obergruppenführer K.H.Frank, P_r_a_g_- 7ME000752 Your last radio address on Friday, 26.II.d.J. gave me the suggestion that you should take the opinion of a simple person of the Czech people, a "man from the street" into this form. Your Prague speech, which I heard from home in a part of Grossberlin, was very interesting for everyone who pursues the internal relations of the homeland with such a keen interest as is the case with me.I have been employed in the Reich since l940 and have come to the satisfaction of the simple German man to gain a view of the world that you represent from every subjectivity.Although I am not able to sign my writing in advance or otherwise, it is only a forced measure that would not be to my credit under normal circumstances.But I do not want to talk about it but to approach the problems to be discussed. Their well-stylized speech, which could well be listened to, cannot leave the thoughtful impression in the Czech volte, since it was far too late,and was said in even unfavorable times,which could seem quite beautiful.We are in the fourth year of the so-called Protectorate, which is probably a highly dubious administrative form.Apart from the fact that it has no autonomous government at all,but has a government that is quite dependent on the Reich authorities,which does not have a familiarity with the masses of the people, there are far too deep-rooted pains and sufferings that must prevent the affection of the broad masses of Czech people for the new worldview. If one sums up the previous experience with a new order, one can say with the best of conscience, that one with the new ones in Bohemia and the new one in Bohemia. The most beautiful word can't help either if the facts, which everyone can see with his own eye, are as powerful as in this case.And anyone who may still be so objective, must soon gain the impression that it is a voluminous, planned Germanization, if not inconceivable, then unimaginable disempowerment of the Czech people to whom I myself belong with all my soul.You are right with your assertion that the Jews have inoculated hatred against all Germans in the Czech Republic, but that this would have to be cured after the abolition of Judaism.But only the measures taken against the Czech people after the power, such as the extensive introduction of German language, the elimination of the Czech language from the official traffic, expropriation of the almost entire industry and unheard protégé of the Germans without regard for abilities and charac terization, isolation of the Czechs and Germans who are often living in friendship, unrighteous and inequitable supplies of levent to unequal peoples, along with other innumerable mistakes, have caused that at least 90 V.H. All the Czechs hate all Germans.It would not only be the insidiousness of London's radio, but above all the facts just described, which have brought it so far.For what would it help the London shipwrecked people to rise up?