STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2046, sig. 109-7/53

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13 - 2 - Place had to be passed by all workers after the end of work. In the "Švandovo divadlo" in Prague on 28.lo. before bought out house the piece "Děvče z přistavu" (The girl from the harbour) was given. There were hints on the 28. lo.4o. Thus the prefect Juan Navaja (Josef Hořánek) mentioned at a birthday party scene: "Yes, today we celebrate the 22. Otto Motička as a chef said to his partner about a rabbit roast: "We roast him as black as is our situation today". In another scene one saw a hangman dressed in black, to whom the prefect said: "You must appear in black just today". At Olomouc, on 28th of the day, he said, "You have to be in black." In the morning at a chocolate factory the following chalk inscription was discovered: "We do not forget the thieves of our freedom" (Czech). At the airplane factory Mras in Chotzen (OLB Pardubitz) on the 28.lo. on the tables in the workshops partially Masaryk pictures with flags of the former ÖSR. A leaflet regarding the 28thlo. was found on the 26thlo in the Skoda plants in Pilsen. It reads, among other things, in translation: "Czechoslovak people! For the second time we are living through our national day in slavery and bondage. The manifestations of the Var Year fulfilled their task, they convinced the world and destroyed the German lie that our people are satisfied under the bondage of the swastika.......We celebrate our today's national holiday:h that we renew our purpose to endure in battle in memory of our liberator Masary.....". In Chrudim (OLB Pardubitz) the inscription "Freedom equal to all" was placed on different houses at night to 28.lo. with chalk, on the front door of a