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

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Group Prague, 26 January 1940. Autfurpotitifce Anaofonenoitor Mr. 302/√. Strictly loyal I In his own oath to destroy immediately Only for service use ! English broadcasts. Sender: London National Time: 20.30 Language: German Reception: Good London: The daily reports about the Vatican show that not only in Poland the brutal violence of the Nazi increases in cruelty, but also in Bohemia and Moravia. Some details brought by the Vatican sender about the situation in Poland have been reviewed and confirmed. Article in the "Times" and the " Daily Telegraph" deals with the Nazi terror in Bohemia and Mlihren. The initial attempts of the Germans to eradicate every non-German deist with the Cheqes pq ea eqzez da p e a and now there is more of a thought. The atrocities committed by the Gestapo to den den put everything in the shadow of what can be done about brutality, the universities would be closed to 3 years, as many gymnasiums. In the gymnasiums where it is still allowed to be taught, it is not uncommon for Gestapo people to appear and force the children to make statements about the conversations and conversations of their parents, the sale of all books of Czech national writers are forbidden, the articles which appear in the so-called Czech newspapers are dictated by the Germans. All Czech industrial enterprises are brought into German hands under the heading of industrial equalisation, all technical industrial products are dragged to Germany and the psheches do not receive any money for this. All financial institutions and banks are also in German hands. The forests of Bohemia and Moravia are cut down and the wood used for a variety of purposes by the Germans. From all this it is clear that the Nazi in Bohemia and Mähren with the same icy-cold recklessness as in the part of Poland occupied by them proceed and dag Ziel lose. To transform the Czechs into a people of slaves In order to re-establish the empty jobs, which are sent to the military front by means of a line of deutsckel kveei ter, the workers' appointments were introduced. In the same way as in Poland, in Czechoslovakia, the Gestapo is also contemplating the discovery of alleged revolutionary groups in order to arrest and murder hundreds of impatient teches, and here, too, the Church is being ravaged by all means. The priests were banned from publicizing the last papal encyclical under threat of strictness for up to 8 years in prison. The bischor in Könicgrätz declared that he and his clergy would not submit to this prohibition. The man who bears the greatest responsibility for the meagre decrees to suppress the Czech people is the man who is responsible for the persecution of the Czechs.