STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 594, sig. 109-4/341

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1h0 93 9os ba It. 6y Process: -3- the fervent request to understand the psychological situation of the soldiers, who have not yet fully realized the new state of things, which explains some in their behavior. However, if, as I have said above, the vast majority of the Czech people are already on a different path, I believe that I believe it is necessary to help this majority of people forward in all circumstances in the way it has taken. However, this can only be done through a curtailment of the harsh measures which affected individuals as a result of their arrest and detention in various prisons in the Bohemian countries and in concentration camps outside the limits of the Protectorate, as well as the release of students in the concentration camp in Oranienburg. In my opinion, it is not important whether the interned individuals and students are released by administrative means or by means of a general amnesty to be issued. On the other hand, I believe that it is essential that the release should not be blocked or even brought to a halt if the promising development of the last few months is not to be halted again, I must say here that the majority of those interned and arrested, apart from those who, on the basis of certain proven facts, In this connection, the Court of First Instance held that, in the light of the Court's judgment in the main proceedings, the Commission's action against the Reich has been accused of having been in prisons or concentration camps since the beginning of the autumn of 1939, since any of these persons had been subject to an interrogation on account of any de-lict, or without any concrete evidence being given to any of them; to the extent that they had been accused, it should be borne in mind that: it is generally based on its political attitude, which is hard to detect, all these people have already spent under very unfavourable circumstances a whole number of months in this very bitter state for them, their families are on the brink of dissent and their health is