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

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29 Circles of the determined will to cooperate more actively with the Germans loudly. From the large number of selected aberrations the following appear significant: In Kladne Czech workers expressed themselves that they could now go to sleep calmly again. Among them it was also heard voices that one should now begin with the invitation to enter the German army. Binzelne literally said: "We will also go and also against the English. It is better to fall on the bad field and to know that by this death our children will buy a better future than to be executed". In this connection it was also pointed out that the demonstrations of loyalty to the kingdom should be continued, for in this way it would best be proved that the incitement of the Czechs living in England is rejected. In the OLB Zlin the change of mood among the workers was expressed by increased enthusiasm for the DRC and in an increased joy of work. It was said that the persons in Zusanmenhang standing with the perpetrator could be excluded from them, so that they could show how to deal with such saboteurs. In Laun (OLB Kladno) Eisenbahner said: "All honour of the German Bolizei. Too bad that so few Czechs have helped. If the perpetrator had stayed here in the workshop, we would have pierced him with Meiseln." In Moravian-Ostrau, workers said that the Pragueers should be held responsible for the innocent shed blood. Armament workers in the OLB Klattau sang and whistled in the workshops where silent and wordless work was done in the last few days. In Kolin, workers regretted that Benesch had not been among these rags, "because they had to catch this guy in order for him not to be harmful." A different kind of instinctive effect could be observed several times again in intelligence circles. Part of the opinion was that the shootings were by no means the perpetrators. The reports about the seizure of the assassins are only a manoeuvre of the Germans, who are now afraid to actually carry out the threatened repressions 3 -