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T7T -44- and returned quite useful material. I had to have the radio recordings of the speech Tisos carried out by two PK vehicles, because the recording device carried by the local Runafunk had only lo minutes of opportunity. Accordingly, the speech Tisos could not have been recorded as a closed unit. At the end of the rally, the deployment team was immediately returned to Pressburg.The radio recording of Tiso's speech was sent to Pressbourg via the operation of Obltn.Krause with a special courier car from the Wehrmacht in order to be transferred to Prague in time. Since the recording of the speech was the only document for the press evaluation, the greatest emphasis was placed on a quick transfer to the Funkhaus Pressburg. However, due to the incapacity of the courier provided by the Wehrmacht, the material only arrived in the Pressburger Funkhaus on the Friday afternoon of October 3rd, so that the press and other information material about the speech could only be issued on the evening of October 3. At the 3l.l0.zeitlich early a courier car with the entire recorded film, picture and press material was handled by me to Prague, so-that a relatively soon an evaluation could take place in Prague. The return journey of the whole operation took place on 1 November. To what extent it has been possible to determine, the use has been most valuable for the principals who, each in its kind, were able to collect very good material for the press analysis. It is particularly noteworthy that certain findings of the principal editors appear that are not in themselves usable in the press, but can provide certain indications for the assessment of the situation. Thus, for example, chief editor Schein- Ost had a significant experience in his talks with the Archbishop and the auxiliary bishop of Neutra and with the Bishop of Neusohl. The spiritual bodies are particularly interested in the situation of the Catholic Church in the Protectorate. It is repeatedly asked whether the church is free, whether church services are organized, how pastoral care of the population is ordered, etc. In the Slovak Catholic clergy, therefore, the enemy propaganda about the conditions in the Protectorate seems to be given more faith than the perhaps insufficiently underlined, actual situation. Moreover, the clergy in Slovakia are very reluctant to assess the situation. Above all, the clergy are almost always aware that the Slovak government is solely to blame for the events. For some time, reports had been sent to essburg by all the state and other official authorities on the freezing events, but the government had not received any response, nor had any measures been taken. By the way, this view is almost unanimously shared by all the state authorities who were found in the liberated territory, i.e. also in Neusohl. Following various concrete examples, which were cited, these findings are likely to come very close to the truth. Moreover, the clergy, as well as the rest of the population, are almost completely convinced that the present situation is only temporary and that in a short, near foreseeable time, the Russians will occupy Slovakia over Hungary. No one believes in a German victory anymore. Nor is it believed that it will succeed in liquidating the partisans and other gang groups in a restios manner, even if the Russian invasion should only be achieved after a certain period of time, it is to be expected that a new insurrection movement will be staged in due course by the official Slovak side, which is still working unrecognized in Pressburg in the anti-state sense. This view was expressed by so many different layers of the Slovak population to be taken seriously by the Czech principal writers that it would probably be worthwhile to make a genoese sighting of the individual officials in Pressburg. bpity of the principal authors was based on Jf,d,V. thiller