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

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A 32 23 5) The attitude of the workers Some of the rapporteurs speak about the recruitment of the labourers. Their reports show that there can be no talk of a strengthening of resistance in the regions, not least because the militarization and the terror regime in the factories has reached an inconceivable degree. West Germany, 1st report: I have been anti-fascist, always organized by the trade unions and have never belonged to a political party. In the elections before Hitler, I voted partly communist, partly social democratic. Today, I am a forced member of the DAF. I have worked at my company for 12 years. In my 37-year career I do not have a time like today's. All rights are lost. One is constantly under supervision, one must not complain, say nothing, have to swallow everything if one does not want to be arrested. With us the military rules. It is working day and night and all this is the same pay. I want to get out of my job, but Göring has stopped the job change as well as the change of job. In our profession there is generally dissatisfaction with the wages, because of the social conditions at all, and because of countless police harassment. What comes after Hitler, I do not know, probably democracy as before. I reject Communism; although I used to choose communists several times. Today I see clearly that Communisma is the same as Hitler. But Hitler himself will decide on Moscow with broken England and France, what will come after the war. 2. Report: (Managing a conversation with a ... worker). Question: "What are the working conditions?" Answer: "They are the same as in the last world war, with the exception that militarization in our profession is now complete. There is no longer any talk of tariffs, overtime payments. The entrepreneur in all things dominates the situation. He is completely at his mercy." Question: "How does the workers think about the war?" Answer: "The war would come was clear to the most people for a long time. It was already in the previous year that the Czechoslovak cause felt that: