STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 431, sig. 109-4/176 (damaged)

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99 serenity service RF4 Prague=Bubentich 16.10.1941. SD-Leitabfchnitt Prague Sachlenweg Fernfprecher 77444 E Büco des Stantslek G@heim! L aDih Mood report No.12 Betr.: Location and mood in the protectorate until 15.10. evening. I. General situation and mood: The general mood has not changed. The following reports are still available on the course of the company appeals: OLB Pilsen: the company's appeals carried out so far did not show any special atmospheric effect. The lectures were tacitly listened and their content largely approved; however, one refuses to know this openly. The final paragraph about the intentional preface of Czech workers to the Deputy Reichsprotektor impressed in some places strongly, but in general special effects of such an audition are not hoped. OLB Klattau: On 15 October a speaker spoke to the workers in the Bohemian Arms Works in Strakonitz through the company radio. The management originally wanted to make the appeal in a assembly hall, but the speaker sent by the Central Association objected that he would rather speak through the radio. The workers behaved quite indiscriminately and explained: "What they told us, we know for a long time. They should give us more bread, fat and cigarettes". The suggestion of the editor about the help of the Reich for the Protectorate was accompanied with an ironic smile. OLB Budweis: To the company appeals workers say that they had been read to them by the speakers something that was worked out by German authorities. The working class expects mainly from the "new Reich Protector" an increase in bread and fat ration. It is also said that the introduction of chordal moans is imminent in order to be able to pay less for the workers who work slowly. OLB Mähr,-Ostrava: The company appeals carried out so far have not had a noticeable atmospheric effect. In most cases, the Czech members of the group take part in the appeals quite numerously and also listen to the remarks, but then - according to concordant observations from various companies - go silently apart and below - 2 - Nb-67/41