English Translation

S Report on the political development in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia from 1 August to 1 September 1941. meea b/y The political development in the Protectorate has been marked in recent weeks by a considerable stiffening of the Czech resistance spirit, which is mainly caused by: 1.) by a strengthening of the general conviction that Germany must lose the war, 2.) by an increasing resentment of the widespread hatred of the population about the further deterioration of the supply situation. The unexpected toughness of the Bolshevik resistance It was against the advance of the German venerable and the sonet external political situation allowed the An-Lr.a.r75.9.1947 to see that the climax of German successes overcame the badopcies and that a German final defeat was inevitable /. 2/0.47, almost become the common good of the Czechs. Although the politically exposed circles of Czechism were still extremely reserved, in order to prevent all the necessity of the war exit and not to challenge sharp German countermeasures by premature open resistance. Underneath the surface, however, the rise of the passive viderstan- of and the hostility against everything German is to be observed everywhere; individual Germans are harassed, boycotted and threatened, German-friendly technics terrorized. For the European significance of the German struggle against Bolshevism there is almost no complacency, so that even occasionally Czechs say that Czechism had lost its last chance and that it is clear that the corresponding consequences of German political leadership cannot be missed. -2 - 4