English Translation

246 - 5 - News has arrived in London about further groundless arrests in the homeland. The arrested are deported to Germany. Thus in the last days a transport of 2oo Czechs went from Pilsen to the Reich, which had already been arrested some time ago. They are mostly taken to Dachau. In Kladno were on 7.ll. Aaht Miners arrested when the miners refused to work because they wanted to achieve an increase in wages. Also in Gitséhin, Chrudim and Olmütz there were numerous arrests, one wonders only what Hácha and his ministers do against this rampage of the Gestapo. Commentaries on the day /There is a woman/s It was announced that the financial agreement between England and Spain does not contain any political clauses. However, this does not say that the treaty has no political significance. By personal intervention by Hitler and Ribbentrops, the tschland tried very hard to persuade the Spaniards that they did not need an agreement with England, since the Lend could provide itself or be supplied by Germany. But Germany cannot give Spain in the most distant what it needs. Since Deutschlend does not have enough goods to supply Spain, it would have to have the power to break the blockade. But even Germany cannot. Deutsehland can only run soldiers and weapons to a federal comrade and outside of the hunger, Spain's attitude shows at the beaten how unstoppable the German declarations are that the blockade is ineffective. If this were really so, Franco would not make an ideological concession in which he concluded an agreement with England. However, the agreement also refutes the allegations of German propaganda that England wants to starve Europe. Kxxgx England, on the contrary, wants to convey the economic traffic between the individual countries. /From here the lecture remained un-understandable/. - Lecture on the current situation in Frankreßgh. /The name of the speaker was not mentioned/This Vortrae was not completely absorbed due to severe disturbances/. After the surrender of France the Germans had the wish to admit to the whole Velt that France was completely destroyed on the ground. Many of the friends of France believed this themselves and were very disappointed. It is already evident that *rankreich is not completely finished. Half a year after the collapse, things are quite different in the occupied and unoccupied part of France. In Bfänco /?/ near Paris, l4 Arbwi ter were executed for sabotage. Because of demonstrations, students were executed in Paris, 5oo were buried in Germany and the universities were temporarily closed. The opposition in unoccupied France only slowly awakens because life there has a certain appearance of freedom. The people still believe there that it has its own government. This government has no easy standing. When Petain sought a ceasefire, he thought that France would receive honorable conditions. Of course, there were also people who voted for unconditional surrender. People like Laval and Baudoin would rather make France a protectorate, all it won -6-