STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1998, sig. 109-7/5

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97 Sicherheitsdienst RF4 Prag=Bubentich, 24.1.1941 GD section Prague Sachfenweg Fernfprecher 77444 B 5 - VA.259 F Büco das gatsjekvoj be A Feospcotek.o in Bohemia and Moravia. Eing.: 24. JAN. 1941 1. To Tgb. Nc.: Mr. State Secretary at the Reichsprotektor in Böhmen and Moravia -Group leader K.H. Fr a n k Prague 2. To the P Reichssicherheitshauptamt - Amt III B - 12/2.41 Berlin ot Betr.: Legionaries. In the following, a larger report by a guarantor about today's atmospheric situation in Prague's legionaries is brought to the attention: Only gradually the excitement, which, because of the former Czechoslovak legionnaires, had seized all the social prisons of the Czech people in Prague - less and only later in the province - fades away. This subject is still subject to bitter discussions, but it seems that since yesterday these have been influenced differently and in the opposite sense by the speakers of the plush propaganda. The emergency calls, which called on the whole people to adopt a uniform position and to resist the German measures against former members of Czech Arnees abroad, are gradually changing into a certain boast that this time it would have succeeded in averting the danger that the Germans - the hated Secretary of State K.H. Frank above all - in their intentions to further limit the rights of the Czech people, would not have stood up and on a fundamental question by Czech solidarity would have been forced to yield. e.g.