STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1904, sig. 109-5/132 (poškozeno) Page 5 · 5 of 38
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1904, sig. 109-5/132 (damaged)
English Translation
-3- Judging mentality - not successful or promising: The development goes completely independently of the case of Eliás. The poison murder case, which the leader wanted to wait for, is not to be concluded at the expense of Eliá. A further delay however makes the very necessary execution difficult. While the Czech intelligence begins to interpret a further postponement as weakness, the little man emphasizes that over 450 death sentences have been executed by tribunals of higher, middle and lower officials, while the most responsible, the former Prime Minister, on the basis of his - as the population says hypocritical final declaration in front of the People's Court would save his head. In view of the fact that the Tacheche is very fond of making historical comparisons, he recalls the condemnation by the Habsburgs of former Czech insurgent Dr. Cramar, who was the first Czech president after pardon for life imprisonment when the republic was founded. I promise myself of the execution of the sentence and the short laconic publication of this execution the success that the Czech people are aware that the kingdom justly and helping the little man gives everything he needs when he is loyal, and in principle the opposition to the empire explicitly and sharply packs up. Experience has shown that loyal and accommodating the actions of the Czech must always have hard and decisive consequences after a few days in order to show him that the attention, alertness and the correct knowledge of Czech mentality have not been clouded. 3.) In addition to my last report of 16.11.1941, I present as Appendix 1 the issue 12 of the magazine "Böhmen und Mähren" and refer particularly to pages 2-4 with the pictures and the article in which I tried the history of Bohemia and Moravia in the