STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2755, sig. 109-14/58 (damaged)

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Security Service RF Prague=Bubenichden 20.6. 42 SD section Prague Sachfenweg Fernfprecher 77444 III C 2458se B.N.2949/42 III C v.19.6.42. The official statement about the emergence of the perpetrators caused great joy throughout the Czech people and acted as a liberation from a severe alpine pressure.The breathing that went through the Czech nation came to Ausdruek in numerous spontaneous expressions of emotion. The following messages are significant: Czech women embraced themselves in Brno, a young couple fell into the arms on the street, and Czech women heartened their children in joyful excitement. A table society of Czech intellectuals declared that together they would make a larger donation to the DRC. A group of Czech construction workers suddenly left a visited restaurant with the remark: "We have to go home quickly to tell our women and children that we have peace and quiet again". When a division of the Wehrmacht wanted to pay for the breakfast taken in a restaurant in Brno, the owner, known as the chauvinist, explained that he did not accept any payment out of joy at the seizure of the perpetrators (OLB Brünn). Even in the ranks of young people who had shown little interest in the past few days, there was a clearly recognizable relief (OLB Mähr.-Ostrava). Most satisfaction and satisfaction was caused by the news among the workers.