STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 578, sig. 109-4325

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Million circulation. With all in all the conditions seemed predestined. ben million Czechs! All this with the 15th of March on - so much by the way the "same scarf. From today to tomorrow. The tung" already to the previous extent "protectors" have managed it. It was enough to allow the Czechs to quickly read the Czech press: the "protective". But they were not satisfied yet. They prevented the same editors from losing their buyers recently. by the "Reichsprotector energetically - The Czech readers are on strike. This is because they "do not cooperate positively enough in the construction", and they had to vow this reader's strike, and by no means 'improvement'. Keep this drastic prohibition measures of the vows. Thus, the Czech Le- "protectors", the 3000 sheets of ser strike have gained new dimensions. fallen victim, which so far seem to have ceased their Er- G. J... Apart from the communist press, which was already suppressed before the German invasion of Gestapo work in Prague, none of the former party papers are banned until today. Even "Narodni Prace", the Organ of the National Labour Court, who from Prague, the Gestapo has carried out a Haussu successor of the Social-Democracy, in the apartment of Cardinal Kaspar. in order to find documents. guided by the old editorial staff, who could inform them about the flight of the ca-stab. Tholic leader Szramek. In order to penetrate the press with the "new, for the Czech organisa- spirit", it was sufficient for those who, in a pro-German sense, were censorship, the usual pressions, and especially those who were active. Fasci- the monopolization of the newsmen of Mr Gayda, special service. Of course, the newspapers have to take protective measures. This forced not only the news, the reason for this are the numerous threatening but also the associated com-letts, which these associations and their mentare taking over from the official agencies to chieftains of the Czechs. The Czech press office is a branch of the DNB. These pee two agencies and the official streets of the Czechoslo correspondence dominate the poli wakei, which are linked to Masaryk and Beneshtic part of the newspapers. Czech journalists abstain to remember, are changed. As it is said, the German "protectors" want the majority of every political "Wenzelsplatz" in .Adolf Hitler-Platz statement. Cases of antifascist counterbands are however not rebaptised. Especially in the provincial press. which is not so sharply censored. Schwejk's naivety here is the legitimate camouflage. As a whole, the attitude of the Czech press may not be called heroic, but it is also by no means absolutely submissive. Apart from the succulences of the czech fascists, salivaries are for Hitler, as Em. Vajtauer writes, the foreign politician of the Ceské Slovo - until September central organ of the Benesch party - an exception. e c