English Translation

1T 72 Report on the political situation in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia for the period 10.4. - 10.5.1941. -- - - - The Protectorate in the period under review was predominantly influenced by rumors that were concerned with an imminent warring between Germany and Russia. The effect of this mood was essentially a strengthening of the German risk, to which I referred in the preliminary report, which is that essential institutions of the Protectorate may be exposed to sabotage for the warfare of the empire. Preventive measures led to a comprehensive action by the secret state police against the illegal Social-Democrat movement. The action was triggered because the illegal social-democrat party wanted to start with 12e of a planned sabotage action. (For example, it should be the oil wicks are removed from lubricating boxes of railway wagons (military transports) to cause a hot running of the camps). Among the arrested is the long-standing chairman of the Social Democratic Party in the former CSR, Anton H a m p 1, who still has important functions in the entire trade union and workers movement in the Protectorate. The increase of the will to resist in the broad mass - 2