STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1781, sig. 109-5/9

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13 Report on the all-embracing political situation in Protectorate Boehnen and Rähren for the period from lo.12.4o-15.1.1941. The political situation at Protectorate has not changed since the last report council. Due to the difficulties in transporting and feeding, the Italian defeats and the Roosevelt speeches, which are put into increased funds by the Czech flotilla propaganda against the empire, the waiting attitude of the Czech people and, above all, the leading circles is more noticeable. Bie already mentioned in a previous lecture * Re-educational action of the Czech people in the sense of the Raich idea had no success. In the areas of valorization I had to decide to a strong Zingriff against the protectorate government, the bean body of the protectorates government is strongly replaced. This could therefore mean that the tachechian beanmen from Slovakia and the offers separated under the Künchner agreements are taken up first of all from the protectoret. Also shawl-rich officers and sub-offices are taken over after dissolution of the Czechoslovak army in the administration front. I have been asking the Protectorate Government for 1 l/2 years to ensure, through a substantial reduction, that the necessary reduction is achieved for its staff and that the remaining part of the bene-