English Translation

- 2 - 7, but in this context it is also explained that the main thing is that the b•lshevist offensive has been stopped. Variously, disheartening statements were made by Germans that the Japanese ally did not contribute to the relief of the German troops by attacking Siberia during the critical time of the winter offensive. Japan is said to have only its own goals and interests with the war in East Asia. The lack of reports in the last Wehrmacht reports on special combat actions in North Africa led many German people to suspect that Rommel would begin the first large-scale offensive, for which he is currently making extensive preparations. The announcement of the war-related attitude of the Nazi Party was received almost universally by the German population with approval and satisfaction. In agreement, it is pointed out that it is tactically very wise for the party to set a good example here. The cessation of the NSL's activities, for example, was approved even in teachers' circles, and it was said above all that each individual in this area was organized in any case in other divisions of the party, so that one or the other could easily come to an end. The closure of the Reichskolonialbund, whose propaganda is currently called not necessary for war, was also consistently welcomed, only the announcement that restrictions are also being carried out within the NsV, was variously based on incomprehension, whereby it was expressed that it was precisely Nsv that had to fulfil special tasks in the war. A local NSv group in Moravian-Ostrava, for example, asked the NSV's district administration whether it had to stop its activities on the basis of the information given. According to all the reports available here, the Czech population had a certain waiting attitude - 3 -