STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1743, sig. 109-4/1498

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Archiy of the State Secretariat at the Reldsprotehtor in Bohemia and Hähren. 40 -16 = to recommend the idea of a strong hand against opposing nations.By den critical labour shortage in the inner @es empire surden again those long-heavy projects, according to which the Czech people should be transformed into a workers' msser, whereby it should be resubmitted to his intellectual elite.The arrests of d increased since the month of September, At this moment Mr. Frank clearly concealed his intention that he plan a great blow against the Czechoslovak schools at the first best opportunity.It is known that the Nazi regime is a keeper in the hereuf conjuring of incendiaries if they do not adjust themselves. The Death of Jan Qoletal_and_his_ Eolgene On 28 Oytober 1939, the anniversary of the national liberation, manifestations took place in all the cities of the Protectorate and especially in Prague.Despite the ban imposed by Mr. von Neurath, the youth of Uysterity took a very active part in the demonstrations.There were dead and injured, and nearly 4000 people were arrested by deute police. A few hundred of them vurden into the Petschek palace, which houses torture chambers of the Gestapo in its cellars, few arrested have come out without any damage. 15 days after these events, the family of the young physician Jan O letal dehin grumbled that the young man who had been arrested during this moving day died. He was subjected to the gruesome wounds and the sohlags he received from the Gestapo.The reports coming from Preg and confirmed by eyewitnesses (saying about the following events: Mittoch early , November 15, took place in the Patho- logical institute the Pegrabnis Jan Opletals.