GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 711, sig. 110-4562

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- 2 - 12. He did not tell us anything new, the content of his speech was essentially in line with the last call of the protectorate government. Moreover, our mayors knew what they had to do in the present time, it is not necessary to tell them again and again." Mayor of Klein-Blatna, Bez.Strakonitz: "It would have been easier to send us the text.For a whole day we have wasted because of half an hour of reading." Unknown mayor: "Because of these few words they drag us here. They could have written it down to us. We cannot remember the content of this speech." Or: "It is true that our sons are not being drafted into the front service, but what they are doing with them during the ski jump is soon worse than front service." In addition, it was evident from conversations that many citizens expected drastic measures partly due to the general situation, on the other hand as so-called preventive measures against possible unrest in the Protectorate. Of these, it was noted that there would have to be a serious reason if Bienert travelled all over Bohemia. After the end of the rally through Scholz, about 2 % of the participants applauded. Already at the end of the march, many participants, who apparently were in a hurry to come, left the hall, whether or not the Czech district captain asked them to sit by hand movement. This departure was generally regarded by the mayors as a signal and taken as an occasion to leave the rally site as much as possible. Both the head of the government and the district chiefs were visibly touched by this and made stunned faces about the disciplinary behavior of their mayors. Bienert arrived in Pilsen on March 2nd at about 19 o'clock in order to take his dinner in small circles. thab 4h-Obersturmbannführer