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

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112 - 12 - (In the broadcast, which was also severely disturbed, it was reported that from the German side a prize was put on the head of the plane Novak Novak, who managed to escape from the Protectorate, fight on the side of the Allies. German side claims that the riots in Prague are the work of intellectual circles. This is not true, however, since the riots had reverberated in workers' circles. In the Skoda factories, numerous sabotage acts such as damage to machines, gills, etc. had occurred. According to a Havas report, 600o Czechs had been arrested after the Munich assassination. 6oo of them had been taken to concentration camps. The day after the Müinchner assassination, the Czechs had introduced the national tricolors, although they had been banned by the Gestapo. They had also distributed flyers, which accused the Gstapo of carrying out the assassination attempt to direct the hatred of the German people in Great Britain. Auslands-Hellmeldungen,19.1l.39, Nr.1 Amsterdam,Reuter: "While Berlin claims that everything is quiet again in Prague, the Czech capital is nevertheless a forbidden place cut off from the rest of the world. All telephone connections are interrupted. The fact that the Nazis were forced to admit the shooting of Czechs is seen by neutral observers as a sign of the real significance of the matter. Although such unrest cannot mean a danger for Germany for a moment, it is considered that they still prove that the ash has not lost the Miut and will always remain a thorn in the Nazi body. During the day, all sorts of uncontrollable rumors came across the border. Disturbations are said to have erupted in the Skoda factories and in other industrial centres, as well as in Poland.What the Czechs were supposed to have caused to revolt was the news that the restoration of their country was one of the Allied's war objectives, as was news of the formation of a National Komnitté and a Czech government abroad, and also of poor food conditions. On the other hand, the unrest on 28 October seems to have been much more severe than was admitted at that time." Paris,Havas: "Today's evening press commented extensively on the anti-German manifestations in Bohemia and Moravia and stigmatized the brutal repression measures of the 3rd Reich. All the newspapers are outraged at the appalling treatment of Prague students who have no other way of getting into debt than to express their national feelings. It is not surprising, writes "Temps" that such a systematic policy of violence exerts a deep backlash on the public opinion of all civilized countries and completes their rebellion against Hitler's Germany. Such a situation, which by means of measures prohibits the most degenerate human feeling, created in Bohemia and Moravia, will inevitably repeat itself in even more difficult form in Poland, where millions of Poles rejected the arbitrariness of persecuting and robbing in favour of the Germans.