STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1775, sig. 109-5/3

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English Translation

On the contrary, keep calm and discipline. Be patient. Save your powers for a little more time. The day of freedom is approaching! The proof of this is this leaflet that will bring you British pilots, who will overcome a distance of more than a mile in flight over enemy territory. The victory of the allies means the freedom of Czech-Dlovakia. There will again be a cowardly Europe, there will be again a free Czechoslovakia!" On the night of March 6th to 17th, the "Message of Great Britain to the Czech people" was dropped over parts of the Klattauer and Tabor district, although several thousand pieces were found, not all leaflets were recorded, as e.g. In the district of Schüttenhofen at night such leaflets were glued occasionally to billboards, Un- miterhar near Tabor also light bombs were dropped. The flight of protectorate members across the border with the aim of entering the Czech legions has continued. Through the border and defence service, 56 refugees, mostly students and young trained workers, were arrested between the ages of 1 9 and 25. Some of the people who had been supported by an organization, some of whom had been privately supported, filled the Slowa-kei in Hungary to get to the French Consulate in order to get further from there. It was only in the last few days that a minister once again announced that he had negotiated with a secretary of the National Community for illegal border crossing into Slovakia. The so-called military organization continued to roll up in March. Among the detainees, in turn, were officers of the former army, including those who were accommodated in civilian authorities, academics, teachers and active officials. The Czech leaflet propaganda increased sharply before the 7.3.194o, in particular to the 15.3. Again, new numbers of the illegal transcription "y Boj" have appeared, which contain instructions for the two commemorative days. The National Gemeirs haft continues to show its double face, The commemorative days in the Mörz offered opportunity