English Translation

Report on the political and economic situation in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia for the period from 1 October to 17 November 1940. The political situation in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia has not changed significantly since the last report of October the year before. Thanks to the tight German leadership, there is peace and order everywhere. The days of October 28 (founding day of the Czechoslovak Republic) and the 16th and 17th. November (Days of the execution of the students in 1939) went this year without the slightest incidents in full calm and discipline. However, the real mood of the Czech population still corresponds to this external image of laborious duty fulfilment in general little. The various attempts at influence by leading Czech authorities and the emigration action launched by the Protectorate Government and the "National Community" have so far produced little positive results. Although the Czech is turning his back on us and servil is fulfilling what is required of him, and although many Czechs with a sober sense of reality recognize the need for understanding and cooperation with the rich, there is still nothing to be felt about a change of the present generation. Instead, the German is today still perceived as an intruder and foreign body and rejected. The Czech is still far from a positive attitude.