STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 683, sig. 109-4/431 Page 29 · 29 of 42
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 683, sig. 109-4/431
English Translation
- 2 - the main head of the department of the NG main management feels strengthened by the recognition of the peasantry in the conviction that it would be best if he were to leave the full-time NG activity and practice on a good one so that he could be deployed after the war in Ukraine. A weighted NG secretary sees the speech after Czech-psychological considerations and describes it as the best.. since the establishment of a protectorate. A reopening of the universities might not be completely excluded in later times, because Frank in his speech did not condemn the intelligence in its entirety, but gave it the opportunity to be able, in fact, to change positivly for the idea of the Reich. The speech of the Reich Minister Dr. Goebbels on 18.10.1942 in Munich did not receive the attention of the German and Czech people, as is the case with speeches by leading figures, given on the same day by the State Secretary Frank. In German circles it was noted that it was particularly clever for the Bavarian conditions. The appeal to the Munich population, to be taken at all costs and not to be ashamed of by other German cities, was characteristic of the mood that must prevail there. In so far as there are voices from the Czech side/the Reichsminister, they state that the leadership of the Reich, with the allotment of all means, is endeavouring to raise the apparently very pessimistic mood of the German home front. The speech is called a consolation speech for the population of the air-hazarded areas, it is further explained that -3 -