STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 387, sig. 109-4/132

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SOPO3 ataban. 0 and in schools activate a chauvinist, anti-German spirit. The broad mass of the workers, on the other hand, feels honored and preferred by the reception at the castle, as the various reports and the press show, above all the open debate on all problems and the indication that the leader is taking part in the debate on the rodoa tr or r ootrod has made a lasting impression on the workers. In the annex I add: -1- The speech of the Czech workers to the Deputy Reich Protector. -2- The following notes have been made by me. -3- A brief compilation of the most important reports and the echo in the Czech press about this reception. 2.- The illegal resistance work goes - to the reporting on No. 1.- accordingly - further and one can practically speak of a roll-up of the current band. The difficult but successful pursuit of the parachute jumpers was provisionally concluded in the first stage with a court judgment of 25.10.41. The press note realized the instruction given by the leader as a reminder to the population and mention of the reward. On 29.10.41, after a long break, another court verdict was given against a sabotage group, headed by two teachers. This verdict was used propagandistically to deter the still very turbulent resistance in the field of higher schools. The school minister was threatened with the closure of the higher schools . He was asked to rejoin the directors of all higher schools with a limited number of pupils of the highest classes.