STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1776, sig. 109-5/4

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- 3 - At the same time, the announcement was received that a large number of Skoda shares were already offered at the Vienna Stock Exchange on 27 April 1942, which led to a sharp fall in prices, some of which were no longer listed at all - all on the grounds that the Skoda works were destroyed by air raids. Under the overall circumstances, the management of the Skoda works was prompted to hold a factory appeal in which they gave information to the Czech workers about the stupidity of these rumors and pointed out that the destruction of the works would also mean destruction of Czech property, and that in addition, after destruction, the Czech laborers would of course be transferred to work. The Czech employees of the plants were extremely positive about the company appeal to want to work fully and obviously opposed the English bombing plans. They condemned the psychosis of the Pilsen population. As far as possible within the scope of the occupation of the protectorate, the Wehrmacht authorized an reinforcement of the flak protection of the works. The announced English attack on Pilsen did not take place. II.) Psychological measures against the workers on 1 and 2 May 1942. In connection with the 1. I announced in a speech by the Minister of Propaganda Moravec that, because of their exemplary working attitude, 3000 workers in need of recovery will be given a free holiday in recreation homes in Bohemia and Moravia. Furthermore, I have made it known through him that the broadcasting equipment confiscated during the exceptional period will be returned to the honest creators in the working-class quarters. I have decided on the latter measure because the majority of the population still has its apparatuses and by returning these few apparatuses the existing condition is related. the foreign broadcaster is not significantly changed. I ask again for a lecture date, in which I have to deal with fundamental problems regarding the decision Bohemia