GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 755, sig. 110-5/44

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English Translation

5 -6= The behavior of the VAD local leaders of three West Moravian municipalities was characteristic. After delivery of the texts for their lecture at the local meetings, they explained - who are at the same time teachers to lay down their function, because they were not able to keep the plans due to illness. These teachers are elderly people who apparently did not want to create enemies by holding these lectures. l5 young teachers from other parts of the district, however, were willing to give these lectures at the congregations. According to various reports, the failure of the lectures on the two-year existence of the association, which was often only announced at the beginning of the events, had so much reduced the number of events that no participation had arisen. After all, farmers would have shown some interest in the announced report and would have been very disappointed by its absence. It had also been criticised by farmers that the entire propaganda campaign had been carried out and ended in a very short period of time, instead of distributing it over a longer period, and thus constantly reminding the rural population of LORY's duties to the people as a whole. . D EN0S5 no 10p 8 A local observator from a South Bohemian district expressed himself - about the conference in Prague: "I expected something classical when the meeting was organized to celebrate the two-year existence of the association and for the time being they bore us only S. The minister read the speech as if he had received it freshly printed and had previously not had time to read it. (Budweis) In the district of Radowitz on 12, 14 and 15 December 44. 81 rallies were held alone, so that even the functionaries of the association took the initiative, since such an accumulation of NS events was completely meaningless and futile and had no effect in the entire district after a few days. (Pileen) According to numerous reports, the content of the lectures was often criticised by participating farmers with the statement that nothing new had been heard. In many reports, numerous complaints from farmers about failure to respond to them had also been brought to inter- esting questions. It would also have been possible to give far too little room to debate, according to officials of the association and participating farmers.