STATE SECRETARY FOR THE REAL PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 500, sig. 109-4/246

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- 6 - in the empire as extremely inexplicable and their suppression considered quite necessary. With the Czech population in Bohemia and Moravia, the arrest of the Vlajka top leadership, apart from reverberation in its own ranks, as findings have shown, has received little attention. As far as opinions are concerned, it is clear that the reason for the action against the Vlajka can only come from Minister Moravec. This conclusion can, politically speaking, be quite desirable for Germany, since this will avoid the impression that a German party would take action against an apparently wealthy political group as such. The Vlajka itself, which is known to be in debt with about 1,200,000 K, of which K 800,000 on Burda, K 100,000 on Count Thun-Hohenstein, K 100.000 on a wife Jirousek, K 100,000 is attributable to the printing house "Grafia" in Prague and the rest to other liabilities, is likely to be paralyzed in the top management, unable to act for the foreseeable future. Forehand is probably entrusted with the continuation of the party business of Count Thun-Hohenstein, who, however, in a circular dated 29.1.43, has called on the Vlajka local groups to restrict their activities to the extreme limits. It is therefore to be assumed that further Massnahnen of any kind will no longer be necessary against the Vlajka to eliminate undisturbed influences in public events in Bohemia and Moravia. With regard to the so far arrested group of people from the Vlajka leadership, it would be expedient to order the custody in a bearable concentration camp (internment detention) until after the end of the war and to place it later on in areas which exclude contact with the Czech people from before. Lwol. bb.Clap.deimam canntun v Cienpat gus lednis IA 8o2/7 Tht 6y