English Translation

43 -3 - press is the fact that in October 1940 its circulation number decreased by about 25% of its previous stock. However, it seems more important to look at the effect of the customers themselves on participants and the public. Here again, all the SD reports in their final evaluation agree that the rallies did not achieve the intended success and that the participants, not to mention the non-authorized publicity, did not have any subsequent effect. The main cause of this failure is the impossible way of presenting and carrying out these manifestations. On the part of the central management of the NG in Prague, all the rallies had been mechanized up to the details by pre-written speech texts, precise lecture sequences, etc. The NG punctuators in the individual circular tours were now in no way able to revive these paper regulations by a personal momentum. The majority of the speakers were even too comfortable to at least study the texts made available and then half-way free to the lecture. Rather, most concepts were monotonously and unhurriedly brought to the reading. Consequently, it could not be omitted that the participants drew their conclusions from this method of implementation on the seriousness of the whole action and were encouraged in their often preconceived opinion that even when the NG propagated the idea of the Reich, it was only an act of necessary willfulness towards the German authorities, the district secretary of NG in Pibrans, who, in his circular letter of 7 October 1940 to the district secretariats under his supervision, pre- scribed the guidelines for the implementation of the gathering to the extent that he cited at which places "approach" at. The best picture of the success of the individual rallies, however, would be left out of the meetings reports of the SD departments themselves.