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

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- 2 - strong fears about the attitude of Italy and its resistance, and the interest in the situation on the Eastern Front is somewhat in the background. In debates on the Lago to thisor Front, it is usually expressed that Doutschland will not be able to take a major offensive this year. All-gomain is a nervous tension in addition to a humiliating lack of insight in the overall war situation with the dor- eign population, with dor man don events of the next time, to re-establish. The German-foinable, auspicious Stimmung of the Czechs has experienced by the events in the Meerererraun cinen neuron buoyancy. In many cases it is believed that the Alliertaz had succeeded in conquering the two central Mediterranean islands of Pantelleria and Lampedusa dor the first step of the invasion and that the main attack would begin in Italy after the end of an ultimatum, which would require the Italian soldier to "clean up" with the Germans in Italy and thus enable the sino bloodless invasion of Italy, In the combinations of the Czechs to the imminent English-American invasion, the same role will be assigned to Turkey. Even if this state was to remain neutral in the coming conflicts, it is already established today that on Turkish eode enormous masses of English and American troops were put to an attack against the Büd- oston of Europe beroit. The Czechs are generally overwhelmed by the fact that in this year's time war would be dissociated in favour of the Allies. The fate of the Achsan powers was already sealed, and the chain of backsliding, which had begun for Germany more than half a year ago, would no longer be demolished. On the eastern front there was os for Germany -3 -