STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 614, sig. 109-4/361 Page 11 · 11 of 14
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 614, sig. 109-4/361
English Translation
On point 8./ Whispering propaganda. Since the 15.III.-39, a whispering propaganda is systematically introduced from certain centres. This whispering propaganda is widespread in all sizes of the Czech population, but prominently in the lower population circles. This propganda pursues above all the purpose of the population to conceal the true state of things in order to keep them awake in their resistance. Propaganda finds its spread wherever Czechs gather in large numbers, i.e. in guest and coffee houses, in theatre and Köno, on the tramway, but especially in the factories. One of the main sources of this propaganda is the foreign radio, especially the broadcasting institutions: Moscow, Leningrad, Warsaw, Katowice, Strasbourg, Lyon, Paris, London. These stations are regularly consulted by people who know the language and then, in part, disfigured, passed on to the Czech population. From the simultaneous appearance of testimnter rumors: in various places it can be concluded that also the whisper propaganda is directed systematically. In the following some samples of this whisper propaganda, which in the last weeks has taken fantastic forms and massex. deppet ntr A new world war is in suit. In this war, the Western powers will proceed together with Soviet Russia and Poland. Germany and Italy will be defeated. Benesch works in America berëits to restore the former Czechoslovakia. In America, a new Czech-Slovak government has formed. Benesh has reconciled with his old companion Pergler. Benesch will soon return to a new Zschecho-Slovakia.