STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2046, sig. 109-7/53 Page 71 · 71 of 128
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2046, sig. 109-7/53
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62 26.10.1240_ 2. The new Douglas B-l9 aircraft is about to be launched in the United States.This will be made available to the British RAF.It is a new type of flying fortress.Some machines will soon be transferred to England.The machine has a span of 65 m, weighs 86 tons, has l2ooo km of action radius and holds lo man and l8 tons of cargo.It can fly from America and back without interruption.If it is used as a troop transport aircraft, it will contain l85 men with full armament.- Vortreg of a woman: "In an English prisoner camp is the well-known German pilot officer Baron von Werra ? ,the personified German lie.He knows how to be compared with the liar Baron Praschil, who is known to you..(unfortunately interrupted by a severe disturbance!) .....The Germans wage a war of criminals against decent people, in which the German people also participate, by putting the soldiers to it and providing material.The German leaders must, however, constantly lie to their people, so that they keep it in their mood and at work. Hitler, Göring and Goebbels know very well that Werra didn't shoot down five British pilots and damage four more. Nevertheless, they put him in front of the microgon to spread these lies. He got daa E.K. Not for his shots, but for the lies on the radio, because people say that a lie, for which he received an award, gets the character of the truth.In the world war it was done that way, but it was easier at that time because the people could be hermetically closed.This is impossible today.It is also possible in Germany to hear London,Moscow and America.The people can convince themselves of the lies of the government.But the German people do not do this.So neither does it want to know the truth, nor does it dare to transgress the ban. Follow the speech of a (unnamed) journalist about the spirit of the London population: "I want to tell you about the excellent resistance spirit of London.I myself was a witness and also to some extent a victim of a German air raid.It was midnight and I found myself in the concreted shelter in the garden equipped with electr. light and radio.l l/2_million of such shelters were provided by the British government for free. Suddenly we heard a strong explosion, but we are used to it here.Our shelter was shaken.Men heard of glass clutter and falling from bricks etc. The only military objects in this area are some retired naval officers and women and children of soldiers.Later we saw a terrible devastation. Trees had been cut down, two houses smashed,others damaged,nowhere a window completely.usw... A girl in work clothes told me that apparently some people were still buried--this girl may have been a simple woman or the daughter of a lord or a duke,because in this extraordinary country everyone does his duty. Their word: "Up your head, we'll bear it!" - I hear it every day. DThe post office building had been hit, but the officials kept working quietly afterwards.The people are very brave, no one cries hysterically, no-one loses their nerves.-Do not believe the German fairy tale about the destruction of merchant ships, ports and cities. Don't think people are already insane and another government is full. We know that the Nazi gangsters would look forward to this,Göring is certainly waiting for it. I saw how during the air raids people quietly went about their work, how elegant ladies continued to do their shopping, as the boys played football on the street.