THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 688, sig. 109-4/437

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Opmo 2.)Iglau mi asb,legnimd ntemeglle doobet ebriw etfdelev ddoin Although at the same time in Iglau the HJ-exit-competitions trotg ebf odoatueb,elb 08 took place in handball, the German population participated in the celebration very EaUVnOU MTLgG tToW numerously. It was occasionally criticized by Germans geee pet geLLoTGt ooy that the loudspeaker systems were too weak and des-ys! (.Ar - half part of the speech of the circuit leader and the deputy reil government commissioner remained incomprehensible. Individual Czechs obviously took part in the celebration out of curiosity tuth reb lieT aie dove Due to this mood overview it must be noted,@ J2) nedo that, although the renaming celebrations were carried out in the majority of cases, in a more correct and satisfactory form, T denofor the Czech population and beyond in the interest of the - internal political development did not have the effect, which was intended to be renegotiated, constraint. la ynrenföved sdoe -the The occasion of the celebrations gave the opportunity to document, through a broad participation of the Czech population and, above all, through their positive echo after the celebration before the indifferent, as Je*) before the opposing Czechs and ultimately also before the foreign countries, which place the Andekken Reinhard Heydrichs already occupies today in the ranks of the czech people and how JS) very much the sacrificial death Heydrics has turned the intended political effect of the Attentate into the opposite. Furthermore, the form of a Utraquist rally for the German and technical population in Bohemia and Moravia could have been pre-exerated for the first time, so that such rallies no longer met with suspicion among the Czech people, but with open-minded willingness. Everything should therefore have been done to bring about a positive reverberation in the Czech population by the effect of the celebrations. The activist Czechs, the members of the board of trustees and all (.8r who volunteered to participate, the teachers and school children, the officials and all those who were seconded to the celebrations, should have been placed in a position to celebrate as an act of good will and as a sign of the DCEATOCUGU 58874 respect_(.oS redd dous rew garellcved aedotsodoed reb gogilleted egilfiftiert eid - 5 - poa