STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 643, sig. 109-4/391

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- 4 - 75A French station Paris_, 10:45 p.m., German: ..... The threat of the SS is presented by Copenhagener reports, which report a wave of terror in Tsehechoslovakia. Thus hundreds of arrests have been made in the Schkoda factories and in many cases the relatives received the personnel papers with a printed agreement, in which the mourning clothing is forbidden. In the cellars of the Petschekbank in Prague the SS carries out its murders. Further murders are reported from Brno, where bloody workers' riots were thrown down. The cooperation of the Czechs and Slovaks is becoming ever more intense in the face of hatred against the German oppressors. Many Slovaks also fled to Hungary to escape the terror of the Germans.... Mr. Pascat Coppot speaks: Hitler unleashed a second world war. He praises his indescribable patience, however, the anecdote of Oesterrèich and the enslavement of the CSR are no evidence of this. Murder, manslaughter and Kirchhofsruhe are for Hitler's rest and Orë+ Fnung. English station Daventry J.l& Uhr , English: The German station admits, as Havas also reports, that many arrests were made in the Schkodawerken, as a dispute broke out. English station Daventry, 9 a.m., English-French: ...... Courtesy messages were exchanged between Dr. Benesch and Czech citizens...... 30 German and Czech travellers, as reported from Rome, were removed from the Irish steamer "Rex".