English Translation

124 -3 - and they firmly believe in the final victory and bear their present plight with a known pride. The concerts organized by the protective police band from Vienna on 6 and 7 July 1940 for the best of the German Red Cross in Iglau were very well attended by the German population. The joy of the concerts was very great and the Germans Iglaus were particularly proud that the protective police band from Vienna had just come to Iglau. b/ Czech population In the flag ordered by the Protectorate government during the ceasefire agreement with France, the police went from house to house and thus ensured a general participation. Nevertheless, the flag was very different. In the larger places and on thoroughfares the flags were partly numerous, while in the remote and purely Czech places almost only the municipal offices, schools and other service stations had been infested. Also in the cities there was the same mixed picture. The houses on the roads were well flagged, while the flags were only sparsely visible in the side streets and outlying districts. A palpable and general indignation was caused by the provisions on the simultaneous display of the Reichsflagge issued by the Czech district authorities on the instructions of the Lord Reichsprotector. The population, which at the time of the Czech-Slovak Republic only rarely showed a flag, had been involved in the procurement of the flag -4 -