STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2740, sig. 109-14/43 Page 43 · 43 of 329
THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2740, sig. 109-14/43
English Translation
August 22, 1939. Foreign-Hell-Meldungen: No..4. 39 OESTERRICHER GRENZE: Havas: "The Germanization of Prague is taking place quickly. While the Czechoslovak capital on March 15 counted only 35,000 German inhabitants, it has now not included 80,000 German troops and members of the SS. The majority of them are civil servants from Arized Companies who have been transferred to Bohemia with their families under the anti-Semitic legislation. The German authorities have provided the most modern and healthiest district of Prague, Holleschowitz, for this mass colonization. The homes of this district were simply expropriated from the Jews or bought at ridiculous prices by the Czechs and made available to the German "colons". In each house one tries to accommodate at least one German family, which has the task to monitor the Czech neighbours and on national social holidays is entitled and obliged to hang flags in the Rhambmm of the empire. This should give the Czech capital a complete Nazi character." 2 ZUERICH: Havas: "The indictment brought by the DNB against Otto Strasser has amazed all those who know the life that the former national socialist leader in Switzerland has led. Asked what he thought of the Nazi charges, his most intimate friend explained that Otto Strasser mammm had never conducted any terrorist action by Zürich. Even if he had the intention to do so, he would have missed the material possibility. For reasons of economy, he lived in a small village, 25 km from Zurich, where he was the subject of a close surveillance by the Swiss police." u.s.w. Ru 17 o'clock