STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 645, sig. 109-4/393

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//1 - ll - extinct city. Dr.Benesh issued a message on the occasion of the bloody incidents. The transport of the Jews to the so-called reserve in Poland is progressing rapidly. Lublin is already overcrowded. So far about 45 ooo men have been taken to the area intended for the Jews. The next thrust is to include about 1 7o.oo man. The Jews who are transported from Austria and the Protectorate must not take more than 3oo RM with them. They must work for 1 2 hours per day with a 2 hour lunch break. English Radio News, 18.1l.39 Daventry, 2o.45 o'clock : The new news coming from Prague proves that even the greatest terror cannot weaken the spirit of defense in the Czech people. Today, the Nazi oppressors have shot 3 more Czechs, allegedly because of an attack on a German. In England this is considered a vain excuse. England does not believe the declaration of the Nazis. On the contrary, it is considered that the number of Czechs who have so far been converted is significantly higher than officially announced. This is also apparent from a document that was smuggled to England and which is in the hands of Jan Masaryk. This document is an instruction for police officers, by whatever means, to disperse accumulations of Czechs. Jan lasaryk says about Hacha as follows: " I'm sorry. Now he sits as a prisoner in the house where my father once lived. He did not know where the development would lead, when he became president of the largest concentration camp, namely Bohemia and Moravia. In these countries the terror prevails and it is violently Germanized. Many Czech Schnlen were closed. The teaching in German takes as much time as in Czech. In the Sködawerke the German workers terrorize the Czech. Czech directors and officials are displaced from their posts. Czech soil is expropriated and assigned to those Germans who had to leave the Baltic. Many Prague hotels are overcrowded with German families. The German officers were asked to let their families live, but neither flattery nor threats have any influence on the Czech people. The second president of the Czechoslovak Republic, Dr. Benesch, has issued the following rally on the occasion of the bloody events: "From day to day it becomes more obvious that the Czech people are moaning under German terror. Just as the internal conditions in Germany become more and more difficult and the war situation deteriorates, so will terror.The Czech people will never bow under the yoke.What happened yesterday and what is called AItxäX retaliation for the celebration of the 28th October, is nothing more than a mean murder. The murders remind us of what happened in Belgium during the German occupation. The murdered students will mean for the Czech population the same thing that Miss Cavell meant for the English people." (The rest was incomprehensible because of the activity of jammers).