English Translation

79 Report on the political situation in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia for the period 10.4. - 10.5.1941. During the period under review, the protectorate was mainly influenced by rumors that dealt with the imminent war between Deutschlshd and Russia. The effect of this mood was, in essence, a strengthening of the German risk, to which I referred in the preliminary report, and which consists in the fact that the conduct of war may be subject to the Reich's essential instruments of the protectorate of sabotage. Preliminary measures led to a comprehensive action by the secret state police against the illegal social-democracy movement. The action was triggered by the illegal Social-Democrat Party's intention to start with a planned sabotage action. from the lubricating rifles of railway wagons (military transports) oil wicks are removed to cause a hot run of camps.) Among the arrested is the long-time 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 labor movement in the Protectorate. The increase in the desire for resistance in the broad masses was also the reason for a ban on the operation of the joint Sokolverband. After this action, the London radio station announced that the "headquarters of the Czech Yugoslav and Polish Sokols" were being created in London.