THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1908, sig. 109-5/136

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6 Tens of thousands of plug-books have been produced abroad for the election of the Council of Trusts, which, however, have now lost their value due to the cancellation of these elections. For the Reichstag elections, only very primitive leaflets were distributed as a result of the short period of time available for production. The Winter Olympics also gave rise to the spread of illegal writings, some of which were sent to foreign visitors through the mail. In addition to the written propaganda, the Funkpropa- ganda and the "Flüterpropaganda" (the so-called spoken newspaper) are becoming increasingly important. b) Fighting (strikes, sabotage, spying). The KPD is constantly making the greatest efforts to bring about strikes. In order to encourage her writings, she constantly brings false or at least highly exaggerated reports about allegedly carried out strikes. Undoubtedly, this propaganda does its effect: In the past time there have often been short-term stoppages of work (e.g. in the Reichsautobahnen ). The lack of skilled workers allows communists to penetrate to a considerable extent into important and other vital enterprises, where there is an opportunity for highly dangerous and effective sabotage files. The following circular from 1934: "From time to time, smaller sabotage files are to be carried out regularly, which do not cause suspicion and endanger human life. Means for this are: By mixing ina lubricating oil, bringing storage to hot running (by appropriate means the remote thermometers have to be brought to a standstill beforehand). The sources of noise must look as if they had a natural cause.Some information on this: In the case of large-scale power engines, the load distribution must be divided in such a way that an overload occurs with the largest machines and other machines that are rolled in parallel pass through and thus windings are destroyed.When digges happens, entire power plants can become a permanent place of energy,without stopping at a sabotage act......"