STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 643, sig. 109-4/391 Page 111 · 111 of 122
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 643, sig. 109-4/391
English Translation
124 - 25 - Aggregates of Czechs to disperse. Jan Masaryk expressed himself about Hácha, as follows: "He is sorry. Now he is sitting as a fan in the house where my father once lived. He did not know where the development would lead when he was made president of the largest concentration camp, namely Bohemia and Moravia. In these countries terror prevails, and it is being forcibly Germanized. Many Czech schools have been closed. Teaching in German takes as much time as in Czech. In the Skodawerke the German workers terrorize the Czech. Czech directors and civil servants are displaced from their posts. The Czech soil is expropriated and assigned to the Germans who had to leave the Baltic. Many Prague hotels are overcrowded with German families. The German officers were asked to let their families come along. But neither flattery nor threats have an influence on the Czech people. There are more and more spontaneous demonstrations. The second president of the Czech-Slovak Republic Dr.Benesh issued the following rally in response to the bloody incidents "From day to day it becomes more evident that the Czech people are moaning under German terror. Just as internal relations in Germany are becoming increasingly difficult and the war situation is deteriorating, so will terror never put the Czech people under the yoke. What was yesterday called "retribution for the celebration of 28 October" is nothing but a mean murder. The murders remind us of what happened in Belgium under the German occupation of the students murdered will be the same for the Czech population (meaning what Miss Cavell meant for the English). " IS From the German side a prize has been placed on the head of the pilot Novak, who managed to escape from the Protectorate, and who is now fighting on the side of the Allies. German side is claimed that riots in Prague the factory inte- tnt there also found reverberation in workers circles. In the Skoda plants, numerous sabotage files, such as damage to machines, gelling iron, etc., had occurred.