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Büco of the State Secretary The Security Police Commander beun Reidhsprotector and SD Pragi the 13th JULY 1940 Tgb. Nr.: IV - 3/40 gRs.- 3799 Cab. No. B. D. p. 4 Copies Please indicate the date and trade mark at the answer given 3. Print RFSS To the Secretary of State, ades 4-group leader K.H. Fr a n k in Prague Czerninpalais. Subject: Influence of the intellectual class in the resistance group of the Czech secret organization. After the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, extensive illegal work against the German Reich and the legal status here was started in the Czech people. The aim of this work was to separate the Protectorate from the German Reich and establish a new Czechoslovak Republic. In order to achieve this goal, an extended illegal propaganda was carried out, links were maintained with the Czech National Council in Paris, an intelligence service was set up for the enemy powers and it was finally begun to create in the country itself the conditions for a takeover of power and the power to secure a new state. The driving and leading forces in this illegible Czech work are the intellectual circles. This is no longer surprising if the political stability of these layers of the Czech people is considered before the establishment of the Protectorate. The majority of the intellectual class at that time was strongly left oriented. This corresponded to the political conception of the decisive men of the state 15.M.190 leadership. The left circles were enemies of National Socialism from the outset and after the takeover of power St.S.I-3/40 98