STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1795, sig. 109-5/23 Page 20 · 20 of 157
STATE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1795, sig. 109-5/23
English Translation
A 21 bV , fear of the future and versatile underground resentment. It was not the silence before the storm, but an atmospheric sultry full of tensions around the uncertainty. The base of this regime is deeply shaken, and perhaps only a few violent blows, first military defeats and desperate hunger revolts are needed to overthrow this house of cards of power and appearance. 2) No War Enthusiasm We have, on the basis of our reports, been able to see again and again until the last time that the German people did not want war in its overwhelming majority. After all, if it was possible for the Nazis to make a broad mood for the war against Poland, it was only because this war was not taken seriously and most people did not want to believe, in view of the experience with Czechoslovakia, that the action against Poland would inevitably have the confrontation with the Western powers as a foge. That is why the widespread naive idea that peace could quickly be restored after the Polish campaign. (Hitler's "peace offensive" was largely motivated by domestic politics with regard to this idea.) The following reports show this war fatigue in agreement. Bavaria: An essential part of the population hopes even more. that the French won't join in and that's why the matter will come to an end soon. However, it's mostly the criticismless who are still blindly glaring at everything in the newspaper or being told by a Nazi speaker. The political thinkers, on the contrary, are calculated by the fact that England and France will wrestle Germany down, even if Russia still intervened alongside Germany in the war. Southwest Germany, 1. Report: From the Nazi circles, in particular from the SS and SA, rumors are spread quite systematically and apparently at the direction of the party leadership that the French allegedly