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

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13 3 - Terror against scattered Germans. In the night to the l4.8. 4 folk Germans were attacked by Czechs on the road from Alexowitz to Oslavan (near Brno) and 3 of them were killed. As a result of the intimidation by the Czechs, a number of school children registered for German schools in the Moravian-Ostrava region did not start teaching there, but fell in love with the Czech schools. Illegal propaganda. In Turnau a leaflet was recorded, which begins with the words "Germany prepares war before", It seems to be established that the leaflet is from Sokol circles.In the suburbs of Ojmütz a blue-white-red paper flag with the inscription "Dr, Edv, Beneš, 1884 - 1938" were spread out on the l6.8. of an un-known cyclist k. In Königgrätz young boys have recently worn demonstrative blue hats with red and white band, so-called Masarykmützen. i Czech emigration. In Prague, one wants to know that the Czech National Council in Paris agreed bercits that Bohemia and Moravia as an independent kingdom, together with Austria and Bavaria, should enter into a new Habsburg empire. The Vatican agreed with this plan. Otto v. Habsburg was already acting in this direction. Distance of a Czech monument in Budweis. On 17.8. the monument of the former mayor Zatka in front of the town hall in Budwies was carried off and spent in a museum. Thus the last Czech monument was removed from Adolf Hitler's square in Budweis. There were no incidents. Only a few Czechs found themselves as spectators. - 4 -