STATE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1795, sig. 109-5/23

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A_22 did not want to fight. Therefore, the French government on the West Wall did not let it attack properly. Because a./Rhein the French would have put up a large banner, on which stood: "German brothers do not shoot, we do not fire for England". Or another fairy tale: French people would have swam to the middle of the Rhine. There they talked with the German soldiers and told them that they would shoot at the English rather than at the Germans. The French government had been forced to withdraw the French troops from the Rhine, and now only blacks would be placed there. 2. Report: The constantly arranged blackout makes very bad blood, as it is regarded as harassment. People used to read in the newspapers that incoming planes would be heard so early that there is enough time left for the alarm, and now they have to darken evening after night. It is strictly controlled and in every report you can read one or more messages because of insufficient blackout. On Sunday, September 24th, the first air alarm was given to us when French pilots attacked Friedrichshafen. There was a very terrible mess in the county town of X. The same is reported from other places. Many residents refused to go to the cellars, and the police and auxiliary police literally rushed around the city, sometimes like crazy, to force people into the basement. People said that we couldn't think of doing this monkey theater all the time. Even officials refused to walk into the cellar. The most stupid and the most obedient were of course the proletarians again. They follow everything faithfully. Many simply laid themselves in bed, so that in different houses the Blockwarte had to threaten with the advertisement with the police. The most excited were the so-called auxiliary police, of which there is a huge quantity. They are mostly older businessmen who have served. You put them in the old green gendarmerie uniforms and give them a yellow armband. On 26: September the wildest rumors about the bombing of Friedrichshafen were handled. In X. you wanted to hear the shooting as well as the impact of bombs. The next day the whole thing was denied in the newspaper and threatened the "bold" chatters with imprisonment. Central Germany: Now that the war in Poland has ended Russia's intervention more quickly,