THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 776, sig. 110-5/66

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pm 26.7.1943 12.15 o'clock 137 to all rpae slogan nr. 177 strict ve rtra u l ic'h.'. newsspiegel(fruehdienst) of 26.07.1943 1st m u s s o l i n i a. reuters dipl. rapporteur: the release of musselolis is the most sensational event on the side of the deite of the axis since the outbreak of war. one of the two sawls of the axle has collapsed. the opinion of the Londoners on Sunday evening is cautious and this precaution is accompanied by a confident expectation. technically no change in Italian attitude has occurred as a military power. the allies are capitulated their offensive continued to Italy. Hitler and Germany have suffered a severe blow through this event. b. London brings an explanation of the official page, which is read in English, French, German and German Italian. Herein it is said: the regression of mussolini means the frenzy of fascism in Italy and the opening to the dissolution and the end of fascistism and National Socialism everywhere in the world. the British-American fighting forces that have overrun Sicily and which mean to carry the war on the Italian land - unless the government capitulates in rome - in the last 14 days have dispelled the severe, the insecurity and the corruptness of the fascist government before the world. in all of Italy, the people in the last few days proved that e s is in pleaded opposition to the continuation of the war. musselolini is stunned, but the Germans are still in italy. the further executions of this London agitation product are essentially in the affirmation and defamation of Germany.