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P h abay Security Service RF4 SD section Prague Sachfenweg Jucn Mlar Fernfprecher 77444 E lo 46tb Secret! Dics/10. DU. u Mahcen 63 10. OKT. 1941 r Ttaeqaa Netr.: Location and mood on 8.10.1941 in the Protectorate. I. General sentiments of the Eastern Front, as far as this is overlooked, are generally welcomed with enthusiasm; one now has another d d d i d d of the eastern campaign and often expects a close-up against the conquest of Moscow. The Czech population continues to be extremely repetitive and, in public, avoids almost all manifestations of the recent events. However, it is unmistakable that this reluctance in most of the Czechs only arises from fear and only from a minority of better political insight. This fear is particularly great in the circles of Czech officials and former, officers sovie of all those who have held any leading position in party or association life or have previously pursued. For example, an article by Kožisek in the newspaper "Moravska orliee" from 5.10., in which the former. Officers were found to be complicit in the current supply difficulties, among the former officers employed by the district authority Ung.Hradisch most distressed. In Wodnian (OLB Budweis) formerly employed officers appeared to the district office for days only irregularly or not at all to the service. OLB Mähr,-Ostrava, Zlin, Klattau and Jitschin are reported -2- 51613 £9-201