STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 416, sig. 109-4/161

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2 The Oherland Councillor Pilsen Bilfen, 1 August 1994l. Deutsches Amteilungshaus - Deutsches Ufer 12 Phone No. 2281-85 A. 3. In reply, please indicate the aftengeichen. To the Secretary of State at the Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia in P r a g . Subject: Troop weekly report of 28.6.194l. On the attitude of the Czech population, I made similar statements in my last two reports, as did the location commander in his weekly troop report. In particular, it was pointed out that the Czechs, in their overwhelming majority, believed that the war with Russia, despite external successes, would in the end call for a decisive weakening of Germany. Only a small part was opposed to Bolshevism. The fact that the Czechs had an arrogant appearance in Pilsen, in general terms, soon struck me after my start of service in Pilzen. Thus, personally, who I use the tram almost daily, I had to make the perception that the conductors rarely used the German language and even spoke Czech with the party badge. I have reprimanded and ordered in a sharp order to the government commissary of the city of Pilsen that first in German and then in Czech the call of the individual stations and the invitation to get in and out etc. must be made. I have been able to see that since then the conductors have followed my order. In the report for July I also took a position on the Jewish question. There can be no doubt that the relatively large number of St. S.π.B-48/41