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

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9 V 32 general de la Rey, the French worker representative Jean Jau-rès, King Feissal of Iraq, Alexander of Yugoslavia, the Iraqi Chief of Staff Bekr Sedky, Calinescu, the Irish Patriot Casement and who knows, all were murdered by English agents. England had made the destruction of Germany his goal, and since it knew that it could not do so as long as Hitler lived, it had now been commissioned by its agents to assassinate him through an assassination attempt. Unfortunately, this propagandistic slaughter of the assassination makes a certain impression on the great mass. However, many are already wondering how it could be possible that close agents could penetrate into the Bürgerbräukeller without being caught by the Gestapo. Then the Gstapo would not have to be so strong. Thus, the riddle rate in the people bypasses and creates more and more an atmosphere in which one is prepared every hour for new surprises. 3. Report: (From a mining operation) The Munich assassination caused tremendous excitement. In the first days there was a real storm surge of rumors and there was heated debate. Many wanted to see the beginning of Hitler's end in the assassination and all were already quite cheeky and honest. There, two days after the attack, were many dependencies, first of all of Jews, then of political opponents of the system. Immediately it became quieter again and the people became afraid. 2) The Effect of Propaganda The reaction of the population to the Munich Attent, which emerges from the above reports, can only be understood if the effects of the comprehensive official propaganda are invoiced without illusion. This propaganda effect has so far not been weakened by the war, but rather increased. The unpolitical man, especially the disciplinarian German, says himself: Now is war, now we have to believe our government more than the enemies. That is why the foreign broadcasts in German and the flyers thrown off by English planes have not yet been able to achieve any greater effect.