STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 641, sig. 109-4/389

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The head of the cabinet. at the Reicsprotector in Bohemia and Mahten. Rpr. 988/41 Eing: 3. SEP. 1941 Secret Reldglnth The Lord Reich Protector has received the following information on propaganda work in the United States of America: The American press has recently been closely concerned with allegedly incipient growth of revolt in the occupied territories. Leading Germans make concrete proposals about how from America German morality could be undermined and the hatred against the German occupation army stirred up. The New York Herald Tribune reports that Dutchmen bought all the kitchen knives and pickles and waved them quietly for the day when they could cause a terrible bloodshed among the German soldiers. These tendencies and abominable propaganda not only reflect the English-American hopes that the policy of starvation would be successful, but also make it seem obvious that the American 5th Column, which is now under the leadership of the Supreme Donovan, has its hand in the game. Roosevelt himself has repeatedly declared the revolt of the occupied territories against Germany as one of the main weapons to defeat the leader. The American press, too, has recently built up all its security speculations on the factors: Russia-England aid and sabotage in the occupied areas. So it can be assumed that sabotaging- Ct.S.W% - 13/4i g.b.