STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 609, sig. 109-4/356

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In this case, the possibility must be given. 4. The services in the Reich can count on the support of the population, the police and other organs of the state and the party at any time. Events of recent times again point to the fact that such support, at least on the part of the population, cannot be counted here. It will be passive, but also partly anti-German. 5. The English propaganda has recently spread news about unrest in the Protectorate and about gruesome countermeasures of the Reich Protector. This news was refuted by foreign press representatives who had convinced themselves on the spot of the actual state in the Protectorate. It is now obvious that the English propagandist, because through the use of agents, changes the state of calm and order in the Protectorate by means of attacks of any kind, causes unrest and pushes the Jnitiatives into the shoes of these riots or attacks of the Czech people. This could be used to demonstrate the truth to the world for the lies of the English propaganda, and at the same time an emphasis could be placed on the correctness of the British lies in general. B. 1. At the beginning of September 39, a consultation took place on the issue of armament with the site elder of the SS commanding force as a military man responsible for defending the castle, which underlines the need for the department to participate in a possible defence of the castle while maintaining its special task.The possibility for this is to be created by providing sufficient hope. 2. An exchange of views on 30.9.39 with State Secretary and senior SS and police leader Frank, who is very familiar with the actual behaviours of his former struggle in the Czechoslovak Republic and his current activities, revealed that on this side, on the basis of the existing circumstances, the