English Translation

14a - 4 - The presence of the Chairman of the Protectorate Government, Dr. Kreiči, in Brno, who visited some of the damage sites in the afternoon of 2l.ll., was connected with the terrorist attack on the day of V. Although Dr.Krejči was clearly recognized by a large part of the Czechs, he was rarely greeted. At the time of the visit, he limited himself only to the reports of the individual police bodies in charge, without contacting the interested population. Of the German population of the city of Brno, some of the care measures of the responsible German authorities were strongly criticized. In one case, bomb victims were homeless for 24 hours, because the school designated for their accommodation was closed. The difficulties in the allocation of the reference certificate were mainly due to the fact that, when the care centres were called there, there was no longer any official applicant. Various Nsv administrators knew how to help each other by issuing certificates on their own initiative and bringing them to distribution. In the procurement of emergency quarters, it was also aggravating the situation that the right to make bomb victims immediately available to empty apartments is only available to the organs of the municipality, so that the NSv administrators could not meet on their own initiative. The population of the city of Zlin as well as the workers of the Bata-Nerke behaved only in a few cases after the alarm had been triggered on the 2o.ll. air protection. The staff of the bata-works, which had already been released from the workshops before the alarm, had gone near the air protection tunnels and cover trenches, from where they curiously watched the enemy planes. Young Bata workers in particular found here again acknowledging words for this "mighty demonstration of Anglo-Anerican superiority". A similar picture was shown in front of the bunkers in the city. Also on the road towards 27458 5 - 5 -