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

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73 4, which she had been to since the establishment of the Protectorate. Hard measures are expected because of the legionaries in the state services. Some well-known personalities already solved their relations with the Legionnaires. Thus did the Kladno doctor Dr.Foustka. 14.1.1941 About the article in the "České Slovo" and the claim that"in the people there is a deep aversion to legionnaire ideology" is laughed at in general and asserted that this is dictated by the interpretations and that something like this can never be taken seriously. Tabor 13.1.1941 The mood among the legionners is depressed. Many of them expressed their hope that they would soon be released from the state service. Königgrätz 13.1.1941 The article directed against the legionaries in the "New Day" of 9.1.1941 made it clear in Czech circles that legionaires should now be exploited not only from the state offices but also from the positions in the private sector. In a Königgrätz industrial company, the German plant manager has even been brought to the attention of the Czech employees in order to determine this widely held view of two cases in his company. On 16.1.41, the following messages were received: L16LL Prague The panic among the legionaries continues. In general, it could be stated that the legionaries want to "take their case" as broad as possible in the Czech public in order to provoke unrest, which in their opinion should be suitable for the German authorities with regard to the Legionnaire's question b.w.