STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1647, sig. 109-4/1402 (damaged)

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M-Goizgmpifane frruk Sicherheitsdienst KF 44 6 SD-Leitsabteilung Prag Nunmer 70/43 Prague, 17 June 1943. Tagesbericht (Strictly confidential, only for the personal service use of the recipient) Secret! I. General situation and mood: With the German population the serious and concerned considerations about the general war situation stop. In the middle-yunkt of the talks are the discussions about the hostile air attacks on Reichgebiet, whereby people are again asked by imner the question, where this development of the air war should still lead, if Germany does not soon proceed to the counter-terrorist attacks announced by the German propaganda. If, however, 30 is emphasized, the number of aircraft fired is pleasingly high, it is possible to conclude from this again on the high rate of aircraft on the side of the passengers. Dio reports from the OKW reports on the new targets in western and northern Germany were already so depriai- ing, because, on the other hand, the successes of the obvious submarines, on which the greatest hope had been sought, were exposed. So the opponent seems to have succeeded in finding the most effective defense weapon against our submarines, and os would have been only a wink value, when os dor douchen Wissonschaft soon succeeded in turning out this weapon of the enemies by a new invention again cinically. The absence of the submarine vafie is particularly striking in the fight against the onglic-American landing operations on the Italian.littslnesr islands. In connection with the abandonment of these two Ibalian bases, the German population in general has 2 1e7