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61 Ssetsee sseeest Prag-Bubentsch, the 16th Sept.1944 SD section Prague Sachsenweg and telex 774-44 III A SA 33 Secret! 1.) An8..3834 4-Obergruppenführer Minister of State K.H. Fr a n k, Mnanlm Pragi Eing.: 19. Sep 1944 Czernin-Palais. 2.) To the commander of the security police and the SD 4-StandartenführER Dr. W e in m a n, Pra g, Kastanienallee. Subject: Statements by Minister B i n er t on the meeting of the Protectorate Government with the President of the Government on 7.9.44. According to Krejêi's remarks, the Minister of State had been very excited and had reprimanded that the Czechs have recently walked around with "uplifted heads" and have drawn unfavorable conclusions from the present military situation for the Reich. Furthermore, the Minister of State noted that the work performed in the plant was sinking; he wrote this to the attitude of the workers to the general situation. On this occasion, the State Minister had also pointed out sabotage acts carried out in Bohemia and Moravia to an increasing extent. The Minister of State had also pointed out that work was sabotaged in autonomous departments, that files were left and that they were not done, and that if such saboteurs were found, they would be handed over immediately to the courts. On these statements by the Minister of State, Minister Bienert noted that the government had made a rather downbeat impression after his observations. It had predominated the feeling that it was b.w. M.πD-19 Ad/43q 1e