GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 757, sig. 110-5/47

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- 8 - 4 3 arbitrarily practiced or out of the plight of the cut off territory necessary forced intervention, from which B d d in wide circles clearly in depression, even increased hostility against the newer ones. This change of mood could be observed from many indirect signs and immediate experiences for wide circles. It would also be different, for example. The lively"sympathy with which the prisoners of Slovenska Lupca - also the Germans - were kept hidden and supported by the Slovak population of all strata in town and country for days after their outbreak, cannot be explained; even the great indifference of the Slovak Wehrmacht against the alleged goal of the GsR, despite occasional exceptions, can be classified here. As an overall impression, therefore, it remains that the actual bearers of the terrorist measures were partly foreign agents, partly untypical elements, from the yeast of the Slovenian people. The people themselves showed themselves to be 'light, good, devout, not very gifted in broad layers, but in its kind quite good-tempered and lovable, childish, unfeeling a judgment, easily manageable of their own, but also certainly easy to guide if it is properly touched. The_problem_is_well_eben_darini_that there_the_leadership_need, The inconsistency and inadequacy of the commanding forces on the enemy side has already been mentioned. On the German side, as a reliable leadership group, is actually only the H.G. to mention the attitude and probation of which, even during the insurrection period, with the exception of a few exceptions, was to be referred to as extremely ginstig.