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

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A 8 34 Attitude and production. Don't compare this with what is here now. If people are systematically drifted for years for a path, they can memorize it and walk it and then leave all the other paths that were once understandable and familiar to them. That's how it is with our people. If you could stay hidden among them once, you would be amazed at their way of thinking. Now it seems to have caught the X. He thinks how every average thinks now. His environment in the office works him and he gets to work... This is terrible, but unchangeable. Six years of dictatorship have been of success in every respect and I can only tell you that the German can only really do that. You see from there things from the high wait as they are no longer. Yesterday and today was the first winter relief Sunday. In the past, someone was supposed to come and demand that you or anyone else take part in a street collection, it would have been rejected. Today, they are tearing down whether it's the police president or an important artist. The fact is, in any case, that everyone, whether demanded or not, goes to the street or anywhere else. wherever you want to go. Nothing can be denied about this fact. And in the current situation it is generally said: The Englishman has begun the war, the Englishman continues the war; the English man has no reason to wage war. But out of mischief and greed for capital he continues the fight and under it mothers and children have to live and starve all over the world. The omnipotence of propaganda is still unbroken. It determines more than ever the attitude of the people to war, to their opponents, to the allies. a) The attitude towards war The Nazi propaganda hammers into the people that Germany is insurmountable and the rapid overthrow of Poland seems to be correct. In recent weeks, she has faced the difficult task of making it clear to the people that the war against England and France is bitterly serious, but she also seems to have succeeded without damaging the reputation of the rulers.