English Translation

141 there was some improvement from home, so it was possible to endure it on this side ....During that time we realized that ordinary people mostly did not like the Nazi regime.It was a big risk at the time, but we did not hide our opinions from them and it did not happen in that time that someone would have reported us.", recalls František Jílek. The parents of the affected boys tried to protect their sons from their commitment and turned in this connection to the protectorate authorities, some companies tried to "reprobate" students from the deployment of TN for their work in the Protectorate. The president's office also intensively tried to reach the return of the deployed students. Only after the air raid on Berlin on the night of 23rd to 24.11. 1943 when fifteen Czech boys deployed at TN died, some students were allowed to return home at the beginning of December, the others returned after stages mostly in the second half of January 1944. "In February 1944, as students, we returned mostly to our schools to complete our studies. We drove home by train in normal cars and a small group of cakemund girls and young women accompanied us to Stuttgart. It was a demonstration of how many of those random and more serious loves Czech boys were able to follow up during the few months. The important thing is that we all returned, except for my classmate Pepík Rešl, who was taken to the concentration camp for writing something home, and he was unlucky to find out at random checks of our letters. He also returned, but only after the war, " relates František Jílek, who, in early March 1944, received a new order to leave for work at the aviation factory in Loitz near Berlin, and only thanks to the employer of the time was he told to work at a branch of his firm in Suchdola. (372) However, the main reason for downloading the protectorate members of the TN deployed in the empire was not so much the pressure of the Protectorate public and the President's office, but the decision by A. Hitler from the end of 1943 not to deploy Czech members in the framework of anti-aircraft auxiliary services outside the territory of the protectionate, for which he had several reasons. In addition to the growing aviation threat to the Protectorate and the potential needs of TN in this territory, concerns about foreign, military-formed forces in the empire played the greatest role. The German State Minister for Bohemia and Moravia K.H.Frank also argued that the Czechs could