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

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In addition, after the abolition of the customs border on 1.1.194o, an increased shortage of food is expected, although by the establishment of the police border and the release bans, a greater withdrawal of life nebulae into the empire is to be prevented. The whispering propaganda has spread in all parts of the Protectorate the view that in the second winter of the war there is to be expected a famine and coal need. Nothing or too little has been done of the wet Czech places so far to eliminate this alarming attitude of the Czech community. This became clear by the circulation of the well-known speech of the Reich Minister Dr. Goebbels on ll.9.194o to Czech artists and journalists in Berlin. After the first shock effect, which also lasted a few days with the government, one wants to prove real loyalty and initiate a large-scale re-education action. To this end, one wants to use all the new committee of the NG (unification party) and the association for the cooperation with the Germans. The latter association had indeed at a meeting on 28.9.1994 in Prague a hitherto unknown number of visitors of 4 ooo persons. According to previous experiences, it can be assumed that the anti-German influences prove to be stronger than the perhaps serious 92956