THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2740, sig. 109-14/43

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Cultural Policy Group. W√ Foreign-Hell-Meldungen: 11,30U4 London: Reuter: "The Copenhagen correspondent of DAILY TELEGRAPH reports that, according to reports received there, 5ooo Nazi-Gardists on motorcycles and in tank cars with machine guns and field artillery moved into Prague early Friday.These reports mention serious unrest in Czechoslovakia, which caused Germany,which caused for the The correspondent adds that the motorized columns have carried out hundreds more of arrests among Czech students and patriots."BERN: Havas:"Especially at the moment when the execution of nine Czech patriotic heroes is experienced, the German propaganda spreads. An article of the LIDoVE NovINY, which appears under German supervision, in which, among other things, it Czech interests have re-found their natural framework in the German habitat ".One could not say it better and more contemporaryly." OESTERREIC GRENZE: Havas: "In the next time Bohemia and Moravia should definitely be assimilated to the realm. This is the secret slogan, which is gradually being realized by the German protectorate authorities. In the economy, German commissioners replace Jewish partners and Czech personnel are replaced by Germans from the Sudeten area. In the large arms factories such as Skoda, even Czech workers were replaced by German workers. The colonization and resettlement of the Germans from abroad makes it possible to penetrate even the whole Czech regions.In Prague, a large number of hotels are occupied by German families who will definitely settle in the Protectorate.The officers of the occupying army are encouraged to let their families come here at the kingdom. The operation of the gutonomic administration was carried out immediately at the beginning of hostilities. In the education system, many Czech eyes were closed. In those remaining, the German language was declared compulsory. In spite of all these Germanization measures, the Czechs neither lose courage nor the strength of resistance.Since the beginning of the subtleties, the boycott of the Germans has been increasingly oganizing and manifestations are becoming more and more numerous.